Anna Honzáková

Czech feminist, surgeon and gynecologist (1875-1940)

In the history of medicine, Anna Honzáková is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Anna Honzáková as Czech feminist, surgeon and gynecologist (1875-1940).

Anna Honzáková was born at Kopidlno in 1875. Her recorded nationality is Czech Republic. She trained at Charles University and First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University.

Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.

The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.

That the work was done from Czech Republic matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.

Anna Honzáková died in 1940, aged 65. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.

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