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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?

About the Author

Steven J. Peitzman, M.D. is a professor of medicine and former archives historian at MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine.

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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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