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The Archives for Women in Medicine Jessica Sedgwick, Project Archivist [email protected] Prepared for the International Symposium of The Commission on the History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine Thursday, 15 September 2011 American Medical Women’s Association pamphlet, 1960s.
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A Presentation prepared for the International Symposium of The Commission on the History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine. Session: “The Impact of New Archival Projects: U.S. Archives for Women in Science and Engineering in the Late 20th and Early 21st centuries” Thursday, 15 September 2011
Transcript of The Archives for Women in Medicine Project
The Archives for Women in
Medicine
Jessica Sedgwick, Project [email protected] Prepared for the International Symposium of The Commission on the History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine
Thursday, 15 September 2011
American Medical Women’s Association pamphlet, 1960s.
History of women at Harvard Medical School
Dr. William T. Porter’s physiology class, dental section, ca. 1905.From the Harvard Medical Library in the Countway Library of Medicine.
Women in Medicine in the U.S.
1849 Present
National Library of Medicine Schlesinger Library
Elizabeth Blackwell
History of Women at Harvard Medical School
Sophia Jex-BlakeSusan Dimock
Harriot Kezia Hunt
1849 Present1847
History of Women at Harvard Medical School
Sophia Jex-BlakeSusan Dimock
Harriot Kezia Hunt
1849 Present1847 1850
History of Women at Harvard Medical School
Sophia Jex-BlakeSusan Dimock
Harriot Kezia Hunt
1849 Present1847 1850 1867
History of women at Harvard Medical School
First class of women at Harvard Medical School, 1949.
1849 Present1945
History of women at Harvard Medical School
Five of HMS's earliest women professors: Elizabeth Hay, MD, Mary Ellen Avery, M.D., Alice Huang, PhD, Lynne Reid, MD, and Priscilla Schaffer, PhD
The Center for the History of Medicine
In 1999:
900 total faculty
collections
Less than 20 by women
Only 1 open for research
The Archives for Women in Medicine Project (AWM)
Goals Collecting: Build a resource with enduring value
Access: Process collections for research access
Outreach: Promote collections and celebrate women leaders
Medical students at an Archives for Women in Medicine event in 2008
Collecting
Lynne M. Reid, M.D., M.B.,B.S., (left) S. Burt Wolbach Distinguished Professor of Pathology, Children’s Hospital
Patricia K. Donahoe, M.D. (right), Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Collecting
From the Mary Ellen Avery Papers
Collecting: Communities of influence
Anna FreudGrete
BibringLydia Dawes
The First Stockbridge Congress on Child Analysis, 1950
From the Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Papers
Anna Freud
From the Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Papers
Collecting: Communities of influence
Grete Bibring
From the Grete Bibring Papers
Collecting: Communities of influence
Collecting: Communities of influence
Lydia M. Gibson Dawes
From the Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Collection
Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Papers
Collecting: Communities of influence
1937
Collecting: Communities of influence
1952
1956
Collecting: Communities of influence
1961
Collecting: Communities of influence
Collecting: Communities of influence
1961
Access: Discovery
Access: Oral history project
Access: Oral history project
Download the oral history interview with Mary Ellen Avery at:
http://repository.countway.harvard.edu/xmlui/handle/10473/12
Access: Digitization initiatives
Outreach
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Outreach: Research Fellowships
Hilary Aquino, Ph.D.
Dr. Leona Baumgartner: Crusader for the Public’s Health
Joane Marie Johnson, Ph.D. Women Funding Women: Philanthropy, Power, and Feminism from 1880 to the PresentNarin Haasan, Ph.D.
Foreign Bodies: Women, Travel and the Culture of Colonial Medicine
Outreach: Events
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Outreach: Events
Outreach: Events
Patricia K. Donahoe, M.D.
Outreach: Events
The Archives for Women in Medicine
Jessica Sedgwick, Project [email protected] Prepared for the International Symposium of The Commission on the History of Women in Science, Technology, and MedicineThursday, 15 September 2011
