A New and Untried Course: Women's Medical College and Medical College of Pennysylvania, 1850-1998

by Steven J. Peitzman

Book Overview

Before 1850, the field of medicine was almost completely closed to women. In 1850, a group of radical reformist male Quaker physicians and associates founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania to offer formal medical training to women. By the 1890s, under the guidance of a series of pioneering women deans, the school grew into a progressive medical collegem re-named the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMC). This development occurred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813528151
• ISBN13: 9780813528151
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.