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- catalog abstract "By the end of the 19th century, women were sought after as physicians, as gentle, natural healers, and were felt to give the medical profession a dignity and humanity beyond what men could provide. By 1920, the number of women doctors had plummeted, and new barriers created obstacles in the careers of established ones. Focusing on the Class of 1879, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, this book explores the trials, frustrations and victories of the period.".
- catalog contributor b543951.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "c1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1985.".
- catalog description "By the end of the 19th century, women were sought after as physicians, as gentle, natural healers, and were felt to give the medical profession a dignity and humanity beyond what men could provide. By 1920, the number of women doctors had plummeted, and new barriers created obstacles in the careers of established ones. Focusing on the Class of 1879, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, this book explores the trials, frustrations and victories of the period.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographies and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Between two worlds: Nineteenth-century American medicine -- Soon the baby died: medical training in nineteenth-century America -- American medicine in 1879 -- Tools of the trade: late-nineteenth-century medical instruments -- Do-it-yourself the sectarian way -- pt. 2. The leaven of tender humanity: women enter the medical profession -- The female student has arrived: the rise of the women's medical movement -- Will there be a monument? Six pioneer women doctors tell their own stories -- Co-laborers in the work of the Lord: nineteenth-century Black women physicians -- Every woman is a nurse: work and gender in the emergence of nursing -- pt. 3. Her calling in life: the class of 1879 of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania -- Yearbook: The class of '79 -- Give her knowledge: the class of 1879 in training -- Private practice: taking every case to heart -- Teaching: for which woman is preeminently fitted -- Institutions: wide and fruitful fields -- Medical missionaries: ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake -- Medical societies: lifted from the ranks of mere pretenders -- Family and community life: cordial social recognition -- pt. 4. Relapse/diagnosis: the turn-of-the-century decline of women physicians -- So honored, so loved? : the women's medical movement in decline -- The promised land: women doctors one hundred years later.".
- catalog extent "255 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393022749".
- catalog identifier "0393302784 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "c1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Medicine United States History.".
- catalog subject "Physicians United States History.".
- catalog subject "Physicians, Women United States History.".
- catalog subject "Physicians, Women history".
- catalog subject "R692 .S46 1985".
- catalog subject "WZ 80.5.W5 S474 1985".
- catalog subject "Women physicians United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Between two worlds: Nineteenth-century American medicine -- Soon the baby died: medical training in nineteenth-century America -- American medicine in 1879 -- Tools of the trade: late-nineteenth-century medical instruments -- Do-it-yourself the sectarian way -- pt. 2. The leaven of tender humanity: women enter the medical profession -- The female student has arrived: the rise of the women's medical movement -- Will there be a monument? Six pioneer women doctors tell their own stories -- Co-laborers in the work of the Lord: nineteenth-century Black women physicians -- Every woman is a nurse: work and gender in the emergence of nursing -- pt. 3. Her calling in life: the class of 1879 of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania -- Yearbook: The class of '79 -- Give her knowledge: the class of 1879 in training -- Private practice: taking every case to heart -- Teaching: for which woman is preeminently fitted -- Institutions: wide and fruitful fields -- Medical missionaries: ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake -- Medical societies: lifted from the ranks of mere pretenders -- Family and community life: cordial social recognition -- pt. 4. Relapse/diagnosis: the turn-of-the-century decline of women physicians -- So honored, so loved? : the women's medical movement in decline -- The promised land: women doctors one hundred years later.".
- catalog title "Send us a lady physician : women doctors in America, 1835-1920 / edited by Ruth J. Abram.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".