Women pioneers in Texas medicine / Elizabeth Silverthorne & Geneva Fulgham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverthorne, Elizabeth, 1930-

Contributor:

Fulgham, Geneva.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 70.

The Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in medicine--Texas--History.

Women in medicine.

History.

Texas.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [1997]

Summary:

The pioneering figures presented here have forged new paths for women in fields ranging from nursing, pharmacy, public health, and dentistry to general and hospital practice, hospice care, virology, surgery, and psychiatry. Their stories reveal the special obstacles they faced and overcame as women practicing in a demanding, traditionally all-male field. They also chronicle the history of medicine in the state generally since, although there was discrimination and resistance to accepting them, their accomplishments paralleled and in some instances led the development of medical practice and specialization. Using vignettes and biographical details garnered from sparse available literature, newspaper archives, typescripts found in various libraries around the state, and interviews, Elizabeth Silverthorne and Geneva Fulgham have created profiles of women ranging from traditional roles such as native herbalists and midwives through contemporary pioneers in fields like genetics and nuclear medicine. Drawing on subjects across the centuries throughout Texas' geographical regions and from diverse ethnic groups, they have painted rounded portraits of the women, showing their educational achievements, personalities, commitments, family lives, and hobbies. The stories of these pioneering women, told in clear and compelling prose, are fascinating and even inspiring. The accomplishments of the women heighten our understanding of the ways in which women have defied stereotype. Through personal persistence and dedication to their chosen fields, often against great odds, the women profiled here contributed to an elevated status for all women in the state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-228) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

089096789X

OCLC:

36817257