Medicine Collection, 1845-1920
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Medicine Collection
Creation of Medicine Collection
Time of Creation of Medicine Collection
Scope and Contents of the Collection Jane Arminda Delano, founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Services, n.d. The Medicine Collection is comprised entirely of printed materials such as bibliographies, biographies, pamphlets, articles, and books pertaining to women in all fields of medicine. The collection dates from 1826 to 1972. Materials on women physicians, nurses, and medical missionaries include mostly biographical information on individuals such as Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, Edith Cavell, Alice Hamilton, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Walker. The Physicians section also includes files on countries other than the U.S. Files on women's hospital, colleges, and medical societies include primarily published material related to specific institutions in the U.S. and Great Britain. There two boxes of bulletins from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. There is also general material related to women in the health professions.
Medical education--United States--History--Sources
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Medicine--History--Sources
Medicine--Societies, etc.--History--Sources
Missionaries, Medical--History--Sources
Nurses--History--Sources
Women in medicine--History--Sources
Women medical students--History--Sources
Women physicians--History--Sources
Women's hospitals--History--Sources
Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania-- History--Sources
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Physicians
Bibliographies
Countries (not U.S.)
General: "Les femmes docteurs en medecine dans tous les pays" by Haryette Fontanges, 1901
Australia
Canada
China
England
Biographies
Phipson, Edith Pechey
France
Germany
Greenland
India
Italy
Japan
Latin America
Netherlands
Scotland
Thailand
United States
General
Miscellaneous
Articles, 1895-1966
Clippings
Pamphlets, 1850-1972, n.d.
States: women in medicine, Kansas, New York, South
Biographical materials
General: articles on women doctors
Baker, Sara Josephine
Baumgartner, Leona,
Blackwell, Elizabeth
[See also Books on Shelf]
Blackwell, Emily
Bradley, Frances Sage
Call, Emma
DeVoll, Sarah Wood (Howard)
Hahn, Pearl
Hamilton, Alice
Jacobi, Mary Putnam
Mosher, Eliza M.
Pierson, Mary Wright
Pratt, Elsie Seelye
Spock, Benjamin
Standish, Hilda Crosby
Tracy, Martha
Walker, Mary Edwards
White, Priscilla
Medical missionaries
Beals, Rose Fairbanks
Berry, Katherine F. : Katie-San by Berry, 1962
Dyer, Lora Genevieve
[File missing]
Nurses and nursing
Wide Neighborhoods by Mary Breckinridge
[See Books on Shelf]
Pamphlets and articles, 1862
Cavell, Edith
Delano, Jane A.
Dock, Lavinia
Hancock, Cornelia
Geller, Anne Dravo vanKirk
Kells, Maud V.
Low, Sarah
Maass, Clara
Nightingale, Florence
Nutting, Mary Adelaide
Army nurses
Black nurses
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Louisville, KY
General: pamphlets and articles
England: Liverpool Nurses Training School
Health professions
General: pamphlets
Conferences: reports of proceedings
Women's Leadership and Authority in the Health Professions, UC Santa Cruz, 19-21 Jun 1977
International Conference on Women in Health, Washington D.C., 16-18 June 1975
Hospitals
American Women's Hospital Service
L'Hopital Sainte Justine, Montreal
New York Infirmary
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Uplands Sanatorium, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee
Vincent Memorial Hospital. "The Vincent Show"
Women's Institute of New York City, 1872
Medical Schools and Societies
Medical Schools
Miscellaneous: articles
Johns Hopkins Medical School
New England Female Medical College/Female Medical Education Society (Boston)
[See also New England Hospital Records, SSC]
Women's College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York
Women's Medical College of Baltimore
Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania
[See also Box 8]
England: medical schools and organizations
Medical Societies
American Medical Women's Association
Massachusetts Medical Society
Medical Women's International Association.
Medical Women's National Association
New England Women's Medical Society
"Women's physicians and their state medical societies" article by Phoebe Peck
Philadelphia Medical Society
Women's Medical Association of New York City
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania: Bulletins, 1889-1960
Books on Shelf
The Annual of Allentown Nurses College, Vol. VII (1926)
Alsop, Gulielma. History of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950 Philadelphia, 1950
Blackwell, Elizabeth, M.D. Address on the Medical Education of Women (1856)
Breckenridge, Mary. Wide Neighborhoods, a story of the Frontier Nursing Service. New York, 1952
Lutzker, Edyth. Women Gain a Place in Medicine. New York, 1969
Thoms, Adah B. Pathfinders: a history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. New York, 1929
Nursing School Today and Tomorrow. Final report of the Committee on the Grading of Nursing Schools. New York, 1934
McLaren, Eva Shaw. A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. London, 1919
Oversize Materials
Poster: "Send Us a Lady Physician"