Women of Mayo Clinic : the founding generation / Virginia M. Wright-Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright-Peterson, Virginia M., author.

Contributor:

Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayo Clinic--History.

Mayo Clinic.

Women in medicine--Minnesota--History.

Women in medicine.

History of Medicine.

History.

Minnesota.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Minnesota.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2016]

Summary:

The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium theory and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects of patient care, education, and research. In tracing the perspectives of more than forty of these women, this book introduces a new perspective on the history of both Mayo Clinic and women in medicine.-- From publisher's description.

Contents:

Part 1. Unlikely beginning

1. Disaster strikes, August 21, 1883

2. Arriving in pioneer Rochester, 1851-1883

Part 2. Women and the early medical practice

3. Opening Saint Mary's Hospital, 1889-1897

4. Building the practice, 1898-1906

Part 3. Steady expansion

5. Reaching around the globe, 1907-1913

6. The needs of the patient come first, 1914-1919

7. Extending the long arm of the physician, 1920-1926

Part 4. Challenges and changes

8. Meeting the expanding needs, 1922-1927

9. Changing the guard, 1928-1943.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781681340005

1681340003

OCLC:

928239078

Publisher Number:

99967504904