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Article Evaluation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnodice

Article states that Agnodice was apparently the first midwife physician in ancient Athens. Seems credible since it's pretty impartial and even provided oppositions to her credibility from other historians. Not much information is there but out of citations, one link works and the other seem to be from books. More information could be added to give more credibility. From an educational point of view since there is no bias.

Imrosapark (talk) 04:04, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Draft Your Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uinyeo

Will insert how the female physicians during this time came to be: Heo Do understood the psychology of the time that women did not like to be examined by male doctors since they felt ashamed. Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, etc. dominated during this time so women were inferior and these religions tended to separate the genders from contacting each other. This would prevent women from receiving treatment if the ideology was too strong to overcome. Therefore, women would die and refuse treatment. Female physicians were most typically female slaves since they were regarded as lower status and the only women that were willing or able to do it were slaves who wouldn't move up or below the social class. Therefore, many of these women couldn't even quit being a physician even if they wanted to.

The proposal for establishing uinyeo originated with Heo Do (許道), a government officer who held the title of Jijesaengwonsa (知濟生院事). He suggested to the king that a number of intelligent young women should receive medical training to treat women. It's been reported in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty during the Sejong Era, that he suggested this implementation of male doctors because of discrimination between the genders; he stated that even if a male is a slave of another slave, he would still be treated for no matter what. He expressed his concern at how there could even be a male doctor that would feel "ashamed" when looking at a female patient and ultimately refuse to treat her. Although the uinyeo system started to practice medicine, it was deeply related to a Korean traditional custom at the time. Various religions with gender segregation had a large impact on influencing this settlement of the female doctor system. Along with Buddhism, Daoism, and Shamanism, the Joseon Dynasty was generally a strict Confucian state and strengthened the distinction between the sexes which was called naeoe (內外; sex segregation). Free contact between the genders was highly controversial and prohibited for some time despite the government's "encouragement" to do otherwise for medical purposes. Therefore, there were also many cases in which female patients died without receiving proper treatment because they felt ashamed of being examined by a male doctor. Heo Do understood this discrepancy where women did not want to be examined by males and how males did not want to examine women. Although was able to influence the king's decision on establishing this female medical system, in the beginning, the only women able to practice medicine, were government maidservants. As a result, these women needed to be educated within the palace and could be sent anywhere that the government wished them to go. However, because they were maidservants, this also meant that they would not be able to quit practicing even if they wanted to.