the archives for women in medicine project

The Archives for Women in

Medicine

Jessica Sedgwick, Project Archivistjessica_sedgwick@hms.harvard.edu 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 Archivistjessica_sedgwick@hms.harvard.edu Prepared for the International Symposium of The Commission on the History of Women in Science, Technology, and MedicineThursday, 15 September 2011