Beulah Bewley

Dame Dr. Beulah R. Bewley, DBE, MD, MSc Social Medicine, MFCM, LL.D is a retired British public health doctor and ex-President of the Medical Women's Federation on the General Medical Council.

She served on the Royal Society of Medicine's section on Epidemiology and Public Health. In her career she worked at several hospitals including the Academic Department of Community Medicine at King's College Hospital Medical School, Denmark Hill, London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Academic Department of Community Medicine, King's College Hospital Medical School.

In 1982 she served on the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and at the Department of Community Medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School in London.

Dr. Bewley was knighted in 2000 for her services to Public Health and in recognition of her leading role in promoting equal opportunities for women in medicine during 20 years as a representative of the Medical Women's Federation on the General Medical Council (GMC).

Writings
The Inadequacy of Adolescent Health Statistics, Oxford Journal of Public Health (see)

Quotes

 * As early as 1902 Ballantyne had found an increase in the abortion rate in French and Austrian women working in tobacco factories. — Dr. Beulah R. Bewley, "Smoking in Pregnancy", British Medical Journal (Vol. 288, Issue #6415, pp 424-426, 11 February 1984).


 * "There certainly was discrimination. They used to look at you and say she is married, or she has got children and if you were not married, they were expecting you to get married." (Dr. B. Bewley)


 * Promotion by tobacco companies may then be seen for what it is—the ‘pushing' of a dangerous drug. — Dr. B. Bewley (see)