History of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950

摘要

Representing a real and unique contribution to the study of medical education in the United States, this volume is noteworthy in depicting the centennial history of a leading medical school which is unique in that it is the only surviving school devoting itself exclusively to the training of women as physicians. In these days when higher education for women in all fields is as much an accepted fact as is the right of women to vote, it is difficult to comprehend the struggle which brought about these achievements, today so vital a factor in our American way of life. The acceptance of women in medicine parallelled the suffrage movement in this country, and the two causes were sponsored by many of the same pioneers. This story is interestingly presented in the history of the Woman's Medical College. Dr. Alsop has been unusually successful in re-vivifying for us these leaders in medical education for women: Ann Preston, Quaker, and the first woman to attain professorial status as well as the first to become dean of a medical school; Rachel Bodley, scientist imbued with missionary zeal; Clara Marshall under whose guidance the School was reorganized to become a modern medical college, and many others.