Prologue: 1871 1. Women and the Study of Medicine Women in an Economic Squeeze Why Women Should Not Be Doctors The American Context Medical Colleges for Women Segregation and Its Effects The American Achievement 2. Zurich and Paris Rendezvous in Zurich Nadezhda Suslova: The Russian Pioneer The Legend of Frances Elizabeth Morgan First American: Susan Dimock The Russian Crisis The Opening of Paris A New Beginning 3. The Great Migration After the Pioneers The Opening of Bern Geneva and Lausanne The Fight for the Internship in France Floodtide The End of an Era 4. Women, Medicine, and Revolution in Russia Higher Education for Women The Case of Varvara Kashevarova Medical Courses for Women New Setbacks Triumph and Chaos 5. Imperial Germany Verboten: The Ban on Women in Medicine The Bitter Debate The Turn of the Tide Before the War 6. The Fight for Coeducation in Britain The Battle of Edinburgh Why Women Should Not Study with Men A Women's School in London New Openings for Women 7. America: Triumph and Paradox Coeducation and Separatism Coeducation Slowly Advances The Demise of the Women's Schools Success and Disappointment Epilogue: Since 1914 Notes Bibliography Index
Thomas Neville Bonner was Distinguished Professor of History at Wayne State University.
An essential reference for anyone studying the historical, social,
economic, and psychological currents that affected many countries’
ability to make full use of the talent of half the potential
candidates for a medical education. It is also a tribute to the
women in many countries who persisted, against extraordinary odds,
in pursuing a profession that they found irresistibly challenging
and gratifying.
*New England Journal of Medicine*
A fresh examination of the different strands of [women’s] long and
intense struggle for medical training.
*Nature*
A clearly written and comprehensive historical account of the
evolving national, legal, and educational structures bearing on
women’s medical education and licensing.
*Science*
To the Ends of the Earth is an absorbing chronicle of women’s
struggle to gain entrance to the medical schools of the
industrializing nations of Europe, Imperial Russia, and North
America from the mid-nineteenth century up to the end of the first
World War. Bonner has made excellent use of varied sources to
reveal the internal social, political, and economic currents which
helped or hindered women’s quest for quality medical education…
Engagingly written… [T]he breadth of the book is an important
addition to scholarship on women in medicine. It enhances our
understanding of the role of the state in women’s personal struggle
for medical education.
*Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of
Education*
This book is important, deeply erudite, thoroughly researched,
clearly written and innovative; indeed, it is a much needed piece
of work on the history of women in medicine… Bonner’s comparative
perspective is not only fascinating, but it is also essential to
understanding the history of women in medicine in the U.S., as well
as elsewhere, and offers a very useful and significant corrective
to existing interpretations regarding the U.S. medical women’s
movement… Bonner does an excellent job synthesizing the research on
women physicians that has been accomplished so far. For that
reason, the book does more than just inform the reader about women
who attended medical schools in Europe. It is also a readable and
informative history on the entrance of women into the medical
profession, in America and in Europe. Again, the comparative factor
gives Bonner’s book an advantage over all the other histories that
have come out in the last decade.
*Regina Morantz-Sanchez, University of California, Los Angeles*
It makes a genuinely new contribution to the history of medical
education for women by placing it in a worldwide context—something
rarely done by professional historians… A strong point of the book
is its narrative style. It tells a good story… A stimulating work
that adds important material to our knowledge of women’s medical
education.
*Ellen S. More, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston*
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