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Book SynopsisBefore 1850, the field of medicine was closed to women. In 1850, a group of radical reformist male Quaker physicians founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania to offer formal medical training to women. This book explores the lives and the work of those first medical students.
Trade ReviewLively, readable, and meticulously researched, Steve Peitzman lovingly and valiantly retrieves the fascinating history of the premier training institution for women physicians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will join a list of 'must-reads' for those interested in the history of women physicians in the United States, as well as appeal to historians of medicine, women, and the professions. -- Regina Morantz-Sanchez * author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn *
A New and Untried Course is a fascinating and superbly executed study of an important medical school - richly researched, beautifully written, highly nuanced, and elegantly contextualized in women's, medical, and cultural history. It will become a model for writing the history of medical schools. -- Kenneth M. Ludmerer * author of Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Manage *
Table of ContentsCh. 1. "A New and Untried Course"
Ch. 2. Building Within, Opposition Without
Ch. 3. Ann Preston, M.D.: An Excursus
Ch. 4. Deans Bodley and Marshall: Approaching a Golden Age
Ch. 5. Curriculum, Clinics, and Coeducation in the Faculty
Ch. 6. Student Life at the Mature "Woman's Med"
Ch. 7. The Age of Educational Reform: 1900-1920
Ch. 8. The Troubled 1920s and the Tallant Affair
Ch. 9. As One Hundred Years Approached
Ch. 10. The Marion Fay Years: Reshaping the "Good Medical School"
Ch. 11. Coeducation (coauthored with Kristin Bunin)
Ch. 12. Medical College of Pennsylvania: What Course Now?
