A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth)
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A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.
Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth)
Women physicians -- United States -- Biography; Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth), 1829-1902
XXV. Refused admission to Massachusetts
Medical Society because she is a
woman--Militant ostracism of
women by Philadelphia County
Medical Society, which tries to
crush the Woman’s Medical College
of Pennsylvania--She insists medical
students must be trained practically
as well as theoretically--Continuing
unable to elevate the
standards of the college, she resigns
from the faculty and the hospital
is discontinued 271-287
PART II
(1862-1902)
CHAPTER PAGE
XXVI. Founding of the New England Hospital
for Women and Children,
with Dr. Zakrzewska as first resident
and attending physician 291-298
XXVII. Letters to her first Boston student,
Dr. Lucy E. Sewall 299-313
XXVIII. Two stories illustrating her broad
common sense methods of studying
and treating patients 314-327
XXIX. Incident of Dr. Horatio R. Storer, the
only man ever appointed on the attending
staff--For the first time in
America the name of a woman is
listed officially as specializing in
surgery, Dr. Anita E. Tyng being
appointed assistant surgeon 328-344
XXX. Land bought in Roxbury for new
Hospital buildings--Dr. Helen
Morton--Sophia Jex-Blake 345-355
XXXI. New Hospital buildings completed--First
general Training School for
Nurses in America definitely organized--Dr.
Susan Dimock--First
Hospital Social Service in America
organized in connection with the
Maternity 356-365
XXXII. Dr. Zakrzewska goes to Europe for
her first vacation in fifteen years--Dr.
C. Annette Buckel 366-372
XXXIII. Attempts by Dr. Zakrzewska and the
other leading pioneer medical
women to keep the educational
standard for medical women from
being lowered--Opening of the
Woman’s Medical College of the
New York Infirmary--Movement
to open to women one of the great
medical schools for men, with special
reference to Harvard 373-387
XXXIV. Opening of the Massachusetts Medical
Society to women--Dr. Zakrzewska
declines to present herself a third
time for admission after having
been twice refused because she was
a woman 388-397
XXXV. Association for the Advancement of
the Medical Education of Women--Dr.
Mary Putnam Jacobi--The
New England Hospital establishes
District Nursing in its out-practice--Dr.
Zakrzewska leads another attempt
to persuade Harvard to admit
women to its medical school 398-415
XXXVI. Dr. Zakrzewska replies to the question,
“Should Women Study Medicine?”--Her
Opinion on “What’s
in a Name?” 416-434
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