Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians
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The Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore invites you to discover how women are changing the face of medicine in the United States.
A new traveling exhibition beginning on August 15, 2007 at the library tells the remarkable story of how women struggled for the right to study in medical schools and to practice medicine in the U.S. “Changing the Face of Medicine” begins with Elizabeth Blackwell, who in 1849 became the first woman to earn an M.D. degree in America, and ends with women doctors today, who have achieved success in work once considered “unsuitable” for a woman. Among them are Antonia Novello, the first woman Surgeon General of the United States, and Lori Arviso Alvord, a Navajo physician who incorporates elements of traditional healing in her practice. Women are now represented in every area of medicine – they are researchers, educators, surgeons, family practitioners, specialists, and government medical officials.
“Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians” 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 traveling exhibition has been made possible by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The American Medical Women’s Association provided additional support.
