the archives for women in medicine project
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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 2011TRANSCRIPT
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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.
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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.
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Women in Medicine in the U.S.
1849 Present
National Library of Medicine Schlesinger Library
Elizabeth Blackwell
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History of Women at Harvard Medical School
Sophia Jex-BlakeSusan Dimock
Harriot Kezia Hunt
1849 Present1847
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History of Women at Harvard Medical School
Sophia Jex-BlakeSusan Dimock
Harriot Kezia Hunt
1849 Present1847 1850
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History of Women at Harvard Medical School
Sophia Jex-BlakeSusan Dimock
Harriot Kezia Hunt
1849 Present1847 1850 1867
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History of women at Harvard Medical School
First class of women at Harvard Medical School, 1949.
1849 Present1945
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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
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The Center for the History of Medicine
In 1999:
900 total faculty
collections
Less than 20 by women
Only 1 open for research
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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
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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.
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Collecting
From the Mary Ellen Avery Papers
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Collecting: Communities of influence
Anna FreudGrete
BibringLydia Dawes
The First Stockbridge Congress on Child Analysis, 1950
From the Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Papers
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Anna Freud
From the Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Papers
Collecting: Communities of influence
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Grete Bibring
From the Grete Bibring Papers
Collecting: Communities of influence
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Collecting: Communities of influence
Lydia M. Gibson Dawes
From the Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Collection
Lydia M. Gibson Dawes Papers
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Collecting: Communities of influence
1937
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Collecting: Communities of influence
1952
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1956
Collecting: Communities of influence
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1961
Collecting: Communities of influence
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Collecting: Communities of influence
1961
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Access: Discovery
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Access: Oral history project
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Access: Oral history project
Download the oral history interview with Mary Ellen Avery at:
http://repository.countway.harvard.edu/xmlui/handle/10473/12
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Access: Digitization initiatives
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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
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Outreach: Events
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Outreach: Events
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Outreach: Events
Patricia K. Donahoe, M.D.
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Outreach: Events
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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