ABSTRACT
This chapter does not pretend to present a definitive narrative of its topic, or even to reclaim huge numbers of women doctors and scientists formerly ‘hidden from history’, but argues that there are a great many stories about women in medicine and the biomedical sciences which have not yet been told. It will consider the patterns shaping women’s careers in medicine and the biomedical sciences during this period. We know much about the heroic age of the first professional women doctors, and something of those medical women who went to the Balkans and France during the Great War. But few of the many interesting, if less immediately dramatic, stories of the inter-war years have yet been told, which do not merely recover hidden heroines but suggest further lines of inquiry into the possible relations between women and science.
