Author: Rachel L. BodleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trusts and trustees
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Remembrance of Isaac Barton, patron of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and supporter of women's education.
Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania ...
Author: Rachel L. BodleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trusts and trustees
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Remembrance of Isaac Barton, patron of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and supporter of women's education.
Introductory lecture to the class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
Author: Ann PrestonOut of the Dead House
Author: Susan WellsPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299171736
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.
A New and Untried Course
Author: Steven Jay PeitzmanPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813528168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Before 1850, the field of medicine was almost completely closed to women. In 1850, a group of radical reformist male Quaker physicians and associates founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania to offer formal medical training to women. By the 1890s, under the guidance of a series of pioneering women deans, the school grew into a progressive medical collegem re-named the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMC). This development occurred despite the stubborn and at times near violent opposition of most of the male medical community of Philadelphia.
Sympathy and Science
Author: Regina Morantz-SanchezPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876089
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in the nineteenth century to enter medical schools and found their own institutions and organizations; and follows female physicians into the twentieth century, exploring their efforts to sustain significant and rewarding professional lives without sacrificing the other privileges and opportunities of womanhood. In a new preface, the author surveys recent scholarship and comments on the changing world of women in medicine over the past two decades. Despite extraordinary advances, she concludes, women physicians continue to grapple with many of the issues that troubled their predecessors.
Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War
Author: Edward C. AtwaterPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine).
Author: Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Female Medical College, of Pennsylvania
Author: Ann PrestonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265792902
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Female Medical College, of Pennsylvania: Delivered at the Opening of the Tenth Annual Session, Oct. 19, 1859 They must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of truth. Medicine is surely destined to become a richer blessing to humanity than it has yet been. The advances already made are prophecies of greater to come. If some widely destructive scourges, as scurvy and small-pox, are al most banished from the civilized world; if epidemics are held in check, and the percentage of recoveries in ordinary diseases greatly increased; if, with advanced knowledge of hygiene, the average duration of human life becomes greater from decade to decade; still there is a vast amount of pre ventable disease and death, for which no effective remedy, as yet, has been systematically adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dictionary of Books, relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375252121X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.