Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Volume I: Debates

AvClaire Brock

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

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Beskrivning

The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of the Great War in 1914. By covering this period, readers will be introduced to ongoing debates surrounding women in medicine, via sources which explore the possibilities for – as well as the problems of – female professional practice. The perspectives of detractors and supporters, as well as medical women themselves, are taken into account, and especial consideration given to opinions which were not neatly divided along gender lines. Of key concern here is a nuanced tracing through primary material of changes in the perception of medical women, as well as the ways in which lingering prejudices disappeared or remained well into the twentieth century. This volume focuses on two key areas: first, the debates and challenges around medical and surgical education for women; and, second, women’s physical and mental ‘fitness’ to practise. The reproduction of previously unpublished student magazines, both from the foundational London School of Medicine for Women, as well as medical schools which considered admitting women during this period, are an original feature of this volume. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032207896

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Dr Claire Brock is Associate Professor in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests are in the history of science and medicine, with a focus on women’s place within these domains during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Volume 1 – Debates Volume 1 - Introduction 1. Samuel Gregory, Letters to Ladies In Favor of Female Physicians For Their Own Sex, 3rd edition (Boston: New England Female Medical College, 1856). 2. William Dale, The Present State of the Medical Profession in Great Britain and Ireland, With Remarks on the Preliminary and Moral Education of Medical and Surgical Students (London: A.W. Bennett, 1860), frontispiece image of ‘The “Upas” of the Medical Profession’. 3. ‘Lady Doctors’, in Jennie June, Jennie Juneiana: Talks on Women’s Topics (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864), pp. 115-117. 4. Thomas Markby, Medical Women (London: Harrison, 1869). 5. A Woman Physician and Surgeon [Mary Edwards Walker], Unmasked, or The Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen (Philadelphia: Wm. H. Boyd, 1878). 6. Walter Rivington, The Medical Profession: Being the Essay to Which Was Awarded the First Carmichael Prize of £200 By the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (Fannin & Co.: Dublin, 1879), pp. 134-138. 7. Emma Hosken Woodward, Men, Women, and Progress (London: Dulau and Co., 1885), pp. 119-141. 8. ‘Physical Society’, Guy’s Hospital Gazette (5 December 1891), pp. 290-292 9. Arabella Kenealy, ‘How Women Doctors are Made’, Ludgate, IV (May 1897), pp. 29-35. 10. ‘Pioneer Women Doctors: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, Dr Garrett Anderson, Dr Sophia Jex-Blake’, in Edwin A. Pratt, Pioneer Women in Victoria’s Reign: Being Short Histories of Great Movements (London: George Newnes, Limited, 1897), pp. 92-117. 11. Isabel Thorne, Sketch of the Foundation and Development of the London School of Medicine for Women (London: Printed by G. Sharrow, 1905). 12. Mary Scharlieb, The Seven Lamps of Medicine: Inaugural Address Delivered at the London School of Medicine for Women, October 1, 1887 (Oxford: Printed for Private Circulation by Horace Hart, 1888), and A Woman’s Words to Women On the Care of Their Health in England and in India (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, 1895), pp. 1-32. 13. ‘Lady Doctors. Increasing Demand for Their Services. Some Objections. The Question of “Nerves”’, Observer (8 September 1907), p. 3. 14. F. Howard Marsh, ‘Scarcity of Doctors’, Cambridge Review (24 February 1915), pp. 221-222 15. Beatrice Harraden, ‘Women Doctors in the War’, Windsor Magazine, XLIII (December 1915-May 1916), pp. 175-193 , Index