| Women in Medicine | |
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| Women's Entry into the Field of Medicine | |
Illustration of an incident in the operating room during Elizabeth Blackwell's medical school education, from "The Doctors Blackwell" in Our Famous Women... (1884), p. 143. |
Books 1875, The Interests of the Public and the Medical Profession 1879, The Study and Practice of Medicine by Women 1882, Admission of Women to the Massachusetts Medical Society 1884, Our Famous Women... 1890, The Influence of Women in the Profession of Medicine 1895, Pioneer Work... 1897, Women in Medicine Manuscripts Scrapbooks |
| Doctors | |
Portrait of Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), a prominent female doctor and the first woman to graduate from the New York Academy
of Medicine, from The Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobi (1925). |
Doctors Featured in Women Working Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906) Books 1883, A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts, by Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman to earn a medical degree. 1892, Helen Brent, M.D.[...] 1906, Dr. Owens-Adair... |
Nurses
 Photograph of the Hospital Operating Room in the New Department under the direction of the Grey Nuns of the Cross in Ogdensburg, NY. Gelatin Silver Print. On Deposit from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. |
Nurses Featured in Women Working Books [191-?], Opportunities in the field of nursing 1911, Reminiscences of an army nurse during the Civil War 1916, The university and the education of the nurse 1917, Public health nursing 1922, Early leaders of American nursing 1922, The education of the trained nurse 1928, Nursing problems and obligations ^ TOP |
Medical Institutions
The New England Female Medical College (1848-1874) Title page of of the Thirteenth Annual Announcement of the New England Female Medical College (1860). Founded in 1848, The New England Female Medical College was the first medical school in the world to provide medical education to women. |
New England Female Medical College 1848-1852, Annual Reports, 1-3 1853, Sixth annual advertisement... 1853-1855, Annual Reports, 4-6 1856-1861, Annual Reports, 7-12 1860, Thirteenth annual announcement... 1862-1871, Annual catalogue and reports, 14-23 1855, Categorical account of the Female Medical College.... 1856, Letter to ladies: in favor of female physicians for their own sex 186-, Female physicians 1866, The War Against the New England Female Medical College 1868, Doctor or doctress? ^ TOP |
The New England Hospital for Women and Children (1859-1969) Title page of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the New England Hospital for Women and Children (1927). The New England Hospital for Women and Children was founded in Boston by Dr. Marie Zakrzewska for three main purposes: to provide women with medical aid from female physicians; to provide educated women with an opportunity to study medicine; and to train nurses. Staffed by women, the hospital provided women's health and pediatric care within a single facility and was the second hospital for women and children in the United States. The New England Hospital for Women and Children exists today as the Dimock Community Health Center. |
New England Hospital for Women and Children 1864-1930, Annual Reports.^ TOP |
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Portrait of Ann Preston, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Hygiene at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, from The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1873), by Clara Marshall.Founded in 1850, the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania was the first women's medical college in the United States to grant an M.D. degree. |
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 1895, The American Medical Woman1897, The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania... ^ TOP |
Woman's Medical College of Chicago
Picture of the original building that housed the Woman's Medical College of Chicago, from Woman's Medical School, Northwestern University (1896).Founded in 1870, the Woman's Medical College of Chicago educated women in medicine and granted M.D. degrees until 1891, when it merged with the Northwestern University Medical School. |
Woman's Medical College of Chicago Woman's Medical School... (1870-1896)^ TOP |