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Women and the medical professions
The text of my lecture given to the Society of Apothecaries Diploma in the History of Medicine
Course, 1994-1998, 2001-2003. Some of the material on the C20th featured in my paper on women in
medicine and science in Sybil Oldfield's volume, This Working-Day World: women's lives and
cultures in Britain, 1914-1945 (1994), but most of it is unlikely to appear anywhere else in this form.
Unfortunately I haven't yet worked out a way to include the many slides.
Plus the associated handouts:
Women enter the medical profession in Britain, 1849-1894
Institutions which admitted women to medical education,
and when, before 1948 and the National Health Service after which all teaching hospitals had to
admit women students (though quotas remained in existence for several decades)
Women in medicine: some figures
of the professional areas in which they were found and in what concentration, from surveys done
in 1928, 1944, and 1974
Medical Women's Federation website
which includes (the somewhat truncated) text of my article '80 years of the Medical Women's Federation: The MWF archives in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre,
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine', published in Medical Woman: Bulletin of the Medical Women's Federation, Vol 16 no 2, Summer 1997.
Further reading: see my article on 'Women in science: medicine' in Reader's Guide to the History of Science, edited by Arne Hessenbruch, Fitzroy Dearborn (2000)
Women in science (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
EGA for Women
'working to develop part of the original EGAH [Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital] building as an exhibition devoted to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the history of women in medicine.'
New Blog: Women Historians of Medicine: A Committee of the American Association of the History of Medicine
Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians, edited by Sybil Oldfield (2001), contains many women doctors and other health workers. Further information
WHOM: Listserv for Women Historians of Medicine
WHOM is a list for women historians of medicine. Women working in the history of public health, health issues, medicine, and medical sciences are welcome to join. The list provides an informal way for women historians to cooperate, network, strategize, and circulate information. To subscribe send an email to whom-request@umich.eduwith the word SUBSCRIBE as the SUBJECT of the message.
Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians
Online exhibition at the National Library of Medicine
The Archives for Women in Medicine at the Countway Center for the History of Medicine, Boston, USA
Fourth Annual History of Women’s Health Conference
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, April 22, 2009
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