Clara Stewart, OBE (23 November 1882 - 5 February 1973), was a British pathologist and president of the Medical Women's Federation.[1][2][3]

Clara Stewart
Born23 November 1882
Died5 February 1973 (aged 90)
OccupationPathologist
Known forPresident of the Medical Women's Federation
SpouseMatthew John Stewart (m. 1913-1956; his death)[1]
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician, pathologist

She was born in Walsall and educated at the Girls' High School, Lichfield. She studied medicine at the University of Birmingham and took the London M.B., B.S. in 1908. Her husband was fellow pathologist Matthew John Stewart, whom she married in 1913. He died in 1956. She moved to live in Ongar, Essex.[1]

Selected publications edit

  • Stewart, Clara (April 1933). "Tuberculous Infection of Uterine Endometrioma". BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 40 (2): 299–301. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1933.tb05302.x. ISSN 1470-0328.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Obituary notices: Clara Stewart" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 1 (5851): 493. 24 February 1973.
  2. ^ Elbto, Mary Ann C. (1986). Women doctors in the British health services: a sociological study of their careers and opportunities (PhD Thesis). University of Leeds, department of sociology. p. 253.
  3. ^ Palladino, Paolo (2002). "4. Genetic practices and the end of the subject". Plants, Patients, and the Historians: On (re)membering in the Age Genetic Engineering. Rutgers University Press. pp. 98–123. ISBN 0-8135-3238-8.