Ch. 1. "A New and Untried Course"
Ch. 2. Building Within, Opposition Without
Ch. 3. Ann Preston, M.D.: An Excursus
Ch. 4. Deans Bodley and Marshall: Approaching a Golden Age
Ch. 5. Curriculum, Clinics, and Coeducation in the Faculty
Ch. 6. Student Life at the Mature "Woman's Med"
Ch. 7. The Age of Educational Reform: 1900-1920
Ch. 8. The Troubled 1920s and the Tallant Affair
Ch. 9. As One Hundred Years Approached
Ch. 10. The Marion Fay Years: Reshaping the "Good Medical
School"
Ch. 11. Coeducation (coauthored with Kristin Bunin)
Ch. 12. Medical College of Pennsylvania: What Course Now?
Steven J. Peitzman, M.D. is a professor of medicine and former archives historian at MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine.
Lively, readable, and meticulously researched, Steve Peitzman
lovingly and valiantly retrieves the fascinating history of the
premier training institution for women physicians in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. This book will join a list of 'must-reads'
for those interested in the history of women physicians in the
United States, as well as appeal to historians of medicine, women,
and the professions.
*author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in
Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn*
A New and Untried Course is a fascinating and superbly
executed study of an important medical school - richly researched,
beautifully written, highly nuanced, and elegantly contextualized
in women's, medical, and cultural history. It will become a model
for writing the history of medical schools.
*author of Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn
of the Century to the Era of Manage*
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