{"product_id":"a-new-and-untried-course-womans-medical-college-and-medical-college-of-pennsylvania-18501998-womens-medical-college-and-medical-college-of-pennysylvania-18501998-9780813528168","title":"A New and Untried Course Womans Medical College","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLively, 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New and Untried Course\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCh. 1. \"A New and Untried Course\"\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 2. Building Within, Opposition Without\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 3. Ann Preston, M.D.: An Excursus\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 4. Deans Bodley and Marshall: Approaching a Golden Age\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 5. Curriculum, Clinics, and Coeducation in the Faculty\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 6. Student Life at the Mature \"Woman's Med\"\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 7. The Age of Educational Reform: 1900-1920\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 8. The Troubled 1920s and the Tallant Affair\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 9. As One Hundred Years Approached\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 10. The Marion Fay Years: Reshaping the \"Good Medical School\"\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 11. Coeducation (coauthored with Kristin Bunin)\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 12. Medical College of Pennsylvania: What Course Now?","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405774201175,"sku":"9780813528168","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813528168.jpg?v=1730493566","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-new-and-untried-course-womans-medical-college-and-medical-college-of-pennsylvania-18501998-womens-medical-college-and-medical-college-of-pennysylvania-18501998-9780813528168","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}