Book ID: CBB861872295

Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary (2016)

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Atwater, Edward C. (Author)


University of Rochester Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 418 pages
Language: English

This groundbreaking reference work contains brief biographical articles for over two hundred women, most of them little known, who graduated from schools of medicine in the United States before the Civil War. The volume includes an introductory essay examining the social and religious backgrounds of the women graduates, as well as their motivations for becoming physicians and their varying degrees of success as practitioners. In addition, the essay offers information on what physician training and practice were like during the period, as well as on the need for reform that provided a setting for women's entry into the profession. The biographical entries are supplemented by a chronological table of female medical graduates and a geographical table indicating the places in which they practiced.

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Review Mazie Hough (2018) Review of "Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary". Social History of Medicine (pp. 883-884). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mohr, James C.
Creese, Mary R. S.
Farris, Kimberly Paige
Wilkinson, Miles
Hill-Saya, Blake
Heidt-Forsythe, Erin
Concepts
Biographies
Physicians; doctors
Professions and professionalization
Women in science
Medicine
Medicine and race
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Arctic regions
Belfast, Ireland
Southern states (U.S.)
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Netherlands
Institutions
United States. Supreme Court
American Medical Association
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