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 2011

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The Archives for Women in Medicine Project — Presentation Transcript

The Archives for Women in Medicine Jessica Sedgwick, Project Archivist [email_address] 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 Susan Dimock Harriot Kezia Hunt 1849 Present 1847 Sophia Jex-Blake

History of Women at Harvard Medical School Susan Dimock Harriot Kezia Hunt 1849 Present 1847 1850 Sophia Jex-Blake

History of Women at Harvard Medical School Susan Dimock Harriot Kezia Hunt 1849 Present 1847 1850 1867 Sophia Jex-Blake

History of women at Harvard Medical School First class of women at Harvard Medical School, 1949. 1945 1849 Present

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 Freud Grete Bibring Lydia 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

Collecting: Communities of influence 1956

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

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 Present Narin Haasan, Ph.D. Foreign Bodies: Women, Travel and the Culture of Colonial Medicine

Outreach: Events

Outreach: Events Patricia K. Donahoe, M.D.

Outreach: Events

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