Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu

Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu (1906–2012) was the first female doctor in Vietnam.[1][2] She went to medical school in France, and graduated there in 1934.[2][3] She opposed French colonialism in Vietnam.[2] She was pressured into an arranged marriage by her father in 1935, but later divorced.[2] She later married again.[2] She went to Japan in the 1950s to study acupuncture.[4]

Further reading

"Henriette Bui; The Narrative of Vietnam's First Woman Doctor" in Viet-Nam Expose: French Scholarship on Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Society, eds. Gisele Bousquet and Pierre Brocheux (Ann Arbor, Michigan University Press, 2002)

References

  1. ↑ Nguyen Huong Nguyen Cuc. Saigon 300 years old. Dallas: English Song Huong, 1999. 248 pp
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu – nữ bác sĩ đầu tiên của Việt Nam – Made in SaiGon". Madeinsaigon.vn. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
  3. ↑ Marie-Paule Ha (2014). French Women and the Empire: The Case of Indochina. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-0-19-964036-2.
  4. ↑ Gisèle Luce Bousquet; Pierre Brocheux (2002). Viêt Nam Exposé: French Scholarship on Twentieth-century Vietnamese Society. University of Michigan Press. pp. 279–. ISBN 0-472-06805-9.
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