Marie Durocher
{{short description|Brazilian physician}}
{{for|the Canadian Roman Catholic religious sister|Marie Rose Durocher}}
{{More citations needed|date=May 2024}}
{{Expand Portuguese|topic=bio|date=April 2020}}Marie Josefina Mathilde Durocher (6 January 1809 – 25 December 1893) was a Brazilian obstetrician, midwife and physician. She was the first female doctor in Latin America.
Biography
Durocher was the daughter of French immigrants. She was born in Paris and moved to Brazil with her parents at the age of eight. Widowed young with two children, she was the first to be granted a medical degree from the newly founded Medical School of Rio de Janeiro in 1834.
Durocher was active in her profession for sixty years. She aroused attention with her habit of dressing in men's clothes, as she considered them more practical in her profession than the contemporary women's clothes. Midwife of the grandchildren of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, Durocher became the first female member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina in 1871, and was the only woman in the Academy for 50 years.{{Cite journal|last1=de Melo|first1=Hildete Pereira|last2=Rodrigues|first2=Lígia M.C.S|title=Pioneiras da Ciência do Brasil|url=http://cnpq.br/documents/10157/6c9d74dc-0ac8-4937-818d-e10d8828f261|journal=SBPC/Rj|date=13 November 2023 |language=pt-br|publisher=Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência}}
References
{{reflist}}
=Bibliography=
- Jennifer S. Uglow : The Macmillan dictionary of women's biography (1982)
- Laura Lynn Windsor : Women in medicine: an encyclopedia
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Durocher, Marie}}
Category:French emigrants to Brazil
Category:Naturalized citizens of Brazil
Category:Brazilian obstetricians
Category:19th-century Brazilian physicians
Category:19th-century Brazilian women physicians
{{Brazil-hist-stub}}
{{Brazil-med-bio-stub}}