Author: Ann PrestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College orations
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, for the Session of 1857-58
Author: Ann PrestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : College orations
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
Author: Emeline Horton ClevelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Out 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.
Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Female Medical College, of Pennsylvania, for the Session 1856-57
Author: Edwin FussellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baccalaureate addresses
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
A Traffic of Dead Bodies
Author: Michael SappolPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691186146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A Traffic of Dead Bodies enters the sphere of bodysnatching medical students, dissection-room pranks, and anatomical fantasy. It shows how nineteenth-century American physicians used anatomy to develop a vital professional identity, while claiming authority over the living and the dead. It also introduces the middle-class women and men, working people, unorthodox healers, cultural radicals, entrepreneurs, and health reformers who resisted and exploited anatomy to articulate their own social identities and visions. The nineteenth century saw the rise of the American medical profession: a proliferation of practitioners, journals, organizations, sects, and schools. Anatomy lay at the heart of the medical curriculum, allowing American medicine to invest itself with the authority of European science. Anatomists crossed the boundary between life and death, cut into the body, reduced it to its parts, framed it with moral commentary, and represented it theatrically, visually, and textually. Only initiates of the dissecting room could claim the privileged healing status that came with direct knowledge of the body. But anatomy depended on confiscation of the dead--mainly the plundered bodies of African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and the poor. As black markets in cadavers flourished, so did a cultural obsession with anatomy, an obsession that gave rise to clashes over the legal, social, and moral status of the dead. Ministers praised or denounced anatomy from the pulpit; rioters sacked medical schools; and legislatures passed or repealed laws permitting medical schools to take the bodies of the destitute. Dissection narratives and representations of the anatomical body circulated in new places: schools, dime museums, popular lectures, minstrel shows, and sensationalist novels. Michael Sappol resurrects this world of graverobbers and anatomical healers, discerning new ligatures among race and gender relations, funerary practices, the formation of the middle-class, and medical professionalization. In the process, he offers an engrossing and surprisingly rich cultural history of nineteenth-century America.
Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania: At the Eleventh Annual Commencement, March 14, 1863 (Classi
Author: Emeline Horton ClevelandPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396572142
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Excerpt from Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania: At the Eleventh Annual Commencement, March 14, 1863 Ladies, we have not told you, or pretended to tell you, the whole of medicine. It is a subject too vast to be discussed minutely in the ordinary term of a college session, or to be com passed in its fullness in the common period of medical study; but. 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.
Publications of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
Author: American Association of University WomenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women college graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Includes the Association's Register.
Valedictory address to the twenty-second graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Author: Rachel Littler BodleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Bibliographies of special subjects
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Rhetorical Bodies
Author: Jack SelzerPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299164744
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
What significance does the physical, material body still have in a world of virtual reality and genetic cloning? How do technology and postmodern rhetoric influence our understanding of the body? And how can our discussion of the body affect the way we handle crises in public policy--the politics of race and ethnicity; issues of "family values" that revolve around sexual and gender identities; the choices revolving around reproduction and genome projects, and the spread of disease? Leading scholars in rhetoric and communication, as well as literary and cultural studies, address some of the most important topics currently being discussed in the human sciences. The essays collected here suggest the wide range of public arenas in which rhetoric is operative--from abortion clinics and the World Wide Web to the media's depiction of illiteracy and the Donner Party. These studies demonstrate how the discourse of AIDS prevention or Demi Moore's "beautiful pregnancy" call to mind the physical nature of being human and the ways in which language and other symbols reflect and create the physical world.