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, womens 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 The reproduction of previously unpublished student magazines, both from the foundational London School of Medicine for Women, as well as medical schools which considered admitting women during this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.
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. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.
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
Womens 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,
Guys 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 Victorias 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 Womans 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
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 womens place within these domains during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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