5. Describe the great qualities of Anandibai that you like the most.
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1. Fight the struggle..
At the age of fourteen, Anandibai gave birth to a boy, but the child lived only for ten days for lack of medical care. This proved to be a turning point in Anandi’s life and inspired her to become a physician. Coming from an Orthodox society, lot of people opposed her going to US and pursue medical degree.People made rude remarks and gestures. They even threw stones at her. She was able to successfully influence every one around and travel all the way to United States.
In her application letter, Joshi after stating her credentials knew that it was inadequate to enter the college and thus asked them to make an exception and consider her purpose which was “to render to my poor suffering country women the true medical aid they so sadly stand in need of and which they would rather die than accept at the hands of a male physician.”
The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow — Robert Tew
2. Patience, perseverance and dedication…
She proved that dreams and dedication are powerful combination and began her medical training at the age of 19. In America, her health worsened because of the cold weather and unfamiliar diet. She never got her enthusiasm down, although her health wasn’t cooperative enough.
She was the first woman of Indian origin to study and graduate with a degree in medicine from the United States.
She studied at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), which is now called Drexel University College of Medicine. Her dissertation was titled ‘Obstetrics among the Hindu Aryans’.
if like give thanks
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865–26 February 1887) was one of the earliest Indian female physicians. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States.
As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopalrao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years older than her. Gopalrao Joshi worked as a postal clerk. He was a progressive thinker, and, unusually for that time, strongly supported education for women.
Appreciations and honors she received
Queen Victoria sent her a congratulatory message. The Philadelphia Post wrote, “Little Mrs Joshee who graduated with high honors in her class, received quite an ovation.”
Dr Joshi lived a mere 21 years but achieved so much in that brief span that a crater on Venus has been named in her honour.
The Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS), a non-governmental organization from Lucknow, has been awarding the Anandibai Joshi Award for Medicine in honour of her early contributions to the cause of advancing medical science in India
On March 31, 2018, Google honored her with a Google Doodle to mark her 153rd birth anniversary.