Kazue Togasaki (1897-1992) was a physician who one of the first two women with Japanese ancestry to earn a medical degree in the United States. [1] The other such woman was Megumi Shinoda, and they both earned their medical degrees in 1933.[2] Togasaki earned her medical degree from the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia.[3]

She had earned a bachelor's in zoology in 1920 from Stanford University, and also studied at a nursing program, but could not work as a nurse due to anti-Japanese discrimination.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). During World War II] she was detained for a month at the Tanforan Assembly Center, and while there she delivered fifty babies and led an all-Japanese-American medical team.[4][5] She was afterwards sent five times to other assembly and relocation centers before being let out in 1943.[6] She then opened a medical practice in San Francisco, where she worked until she retired at age 75, having delivered more than ten thousand babies in all.[7]


References

  1. ^ http://hoodline.com/2015/08/kazue-togasaki-quake-world-war-neighborhoods
  2. ^ Susan Ware (2004). Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. pp. 640–. ISBN 978-0-674-01488-6.
  3. ^ http://hoodline.com/2015/08/kazue-togasaki-quake-world-war-neighborhoods
  4. ^ https://bitchmedia.org/article/american-has-long-history-pitting-politics-against-public-health
  5. ^ http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2008/6/21/enduring-communities/
  6. ^ https://bitchmedia.org/article/american-has-long-history-pitting-politics-against-public-health
  7. ^ https://bitchmedia.org/article/american-has-long-history-pitting-politics-against-public-health,
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