Health Sciences Library, Dittrick host Women Physician Exhibit
Case among 61 libraries as host site to highlight contributions of women in medicine
November 3, 2005 | For more information: Susan Griffith 216-368-1004
"Changing
the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians" will make its second stop on a 61-library, five-year tour when it comes to Case Western Reserve University. The Cleveland Health Sciences Library, with the Cleveland Public Library's Science and Technology Department, presents the free, public exhibit November 1 through December 20 in the Cushing Reading Room of the Allen Memorial Medical Library, 11000 Euclid Ave.
The exhibit explores the struggles and career paths of women in medicine from such trailblazers as Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in America to earn her medical degree, to Matilda Evans, the first African American physician licensed in South Carolina.
Case is uniquely positioned to tell the story of early women physicians, according to Cleveland Health Sciences Library director Virginia G. Saha and James M. Edmonson, chief curator of Case's Dittrick Medical History Center and the curator for the traveling exhibit. Following Blackwell's graduation, Case's medical school provided the country with its next six women physicians, among who was Blackwell's sister Emily. Their stories will be told in a companion exhibit, When Roses Bloomed in Winter: Women Medical Graduates of Western Reserve College, 1852-5, based on the 1990 doctoral thesis by Case alumna Linda Lehmann Goldstein (Case, M.A. '82, Ph.D., '89) .
"These women were the first women physicians who graduated from a regular coeducational medical college. Possessing such a degree qualified them as physicians on equal footing with men, although full acceptance would be a long time coming," said Edmonson.
Related panel discussions, lectures and other public programs will take place in conjunction with the exhibit. For details, visit http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/site2/.
Related Events:
October 28: ADVANCE Distinguished Lectureships presents Kristina M. Ropella, Ph.D, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University.
November 1: At 6 p.m. in the Ford Auditorium of Allen Memorial Medical Library, the exhibit curator, Ellen More from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Tex., will give the Dittrick Center's Zverina Lecture, with the talk, Professional Authority, Sexual Morality and the Woman Physician: Changing the Face of Medicine.
November 10: Flora Stone Mather Center for Women's Spotlight Series Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the 1914 Lounge in Thwing Center will feature Susan Hinze, Case associate professor of sociology, in a discussion on her research on physicians and the working and personal lives of women.
November 30: The Rainbow Center for International Child Health will showcase posters in the foyer of Allen Memorial Medical Library and also present a panel discussion in the Ford Auditorium at noon. Panelists are Marissa Herran, M.D., Karen Olness, M.D., and Felicite Katz, M.A.
December 9: ADVANCE Distinguished Lectureships presents Banu Onaral, Ph.D., H.H. Sun Professor and director, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University.
K-12 Essay and poster contest: "Why I want to be a Doctor" is a local essay and poster contest that reflects the theme of the exhibit. Local schools can email Virginia Saha at vmg2@case.edu for information.
"Changing the Face of Medicine" was developed by the Exhibition Program of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The exhibit has been made possible by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health, with additional support provided by the American Medical Women's Association. The exhibit was first presented in 2003-05 by the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md.
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