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An Illness in the Family: Dr. Maude Abbott and Her Sister, Alice Abbott (2011)

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 28, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 171-190

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Women in medicine Health care Mental disorders and diseases Professions and professionalization 19th century 20th century, early Abbott, Maude E.

This paper explores Maude Abbott's internationally significant career in medicine and her parallel commitment to caring for her sister, Alice Abbott. An examination of Abbott's life reveals the difficulties faced by an ambitious Canadian woman in medicine from the 1890s to the 1920s; difficulties compounded by caring for a sister with a mental illness. The Abbott archive suggests that it was far more difficult for a woman doctor to make the kind of sharp distinction between public and private life that might be expected of professional men. Résumé. Cet article explore la carrière reconnue internationalement en médecine de Maude Abbott, de même que son engagement parallèle dans les soins donnés à sa soeur, Alice Abbott. Un examen de sa vie révèle les difficultés rencontrées en médecine par une ambitieuse femme canadienne de la décennie 1890 à la décennie 1920, difficultés auxquelles s'ajoutait la prise en charge d'une soeur atteinte de maladie mentale. Les archives d'Abbott suggèrent qu'il était beaucoup plus difficile de dissocier clairement vie publique et vie privée pour une femme médecin que pour un professionnel masculin.

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