Stafford Library: Women in Medicine Resource Guide: Internet Links

Changing the Face of Medicine Exhibition

Preview Video to the National Library of Medicine Exhibition
A 2-minute video.
Exhibition Website of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
This exhibition celebrates the lives and achievements of America's women physicians.
Text of the American Library Association 's Exhibition Based on the NLM Exhibition

Other National Library of Medicine Exhibitions

Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection
Presents a selection of historic postcards that span a century of nursing imagery and investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now.
A link to educational resources is provided.
Rise, Serve, Lead! America's Women Physicians
Focuses on how women physicians have made a difference through their medical practice and research, their work as activists, their service as administrators, and their mentorship to the next generation of physicians.

Library of Congress Resources

Library of Congress Research Guide on Women in Medicine
A list of books on the history of women in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine, and the individuals who made a difference in in these specific fields of science.
Military Medicine: Nurses
Stories from the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress

Digital Collection of the Drexel University College of Medicine's Legacy Center.

Below are links to digital collections of primary sources available via the website of Drexel University College of Medicine's Legacy Center. One of Drexel's predecessor institutions was the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical school for women.

The last link is to the website of Drexel University College of Medicine's Legacy Center at which you can search for more resources.

Doctor or Doctress? Explore American History through the Eyes of Women Physicians
Provides access to primary sources available i the "Women in Medicine" digital collection of the Drexel University College of Medicine's Legacy Center. One of Drexel's predecessor insittutions was the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical school for women.
Anandibai Joshee
Graduating from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886, Anandibai was the first high-caste Hindu woman to receive a medical degree.
Oral Histories
Multiple collections of oral histories. Transcripts for only some of the individual histories are available online.
Women Physicians: 1850 - 1970
This collection consists of many formats documenting the history of women physicians beginning with the first medical school for women, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP
Drexel University College of Medicine's Legacy Center
Here you can search for more resources.
Oral Histories on Women in Medicine
Oral history interviews were conducted with 43 women physicians and medical students from 1976-1978 resulting in audio recordings, transcripts and support materials.The digital collection currently includes all the transcripts; audio recordings are available on-site at the archive.
Women in Medicine Photographs
Encompasses records for 6,000 images from the mid 1800s into the 1980s, illustrating College students at work and play, women physicians at work in offices, hospitals, and in clinics domestically and abroad, portraits, and research images.

American Association for the History of Nursing

Important Dates in the History of Nursing
Some of the entries contain links to additional information .
Gravesites of Prominent Nurses
Contains biographical and career information on the individual nurses. Also lists sources to consult for more information.
Nursing History Research Resources
While not a comprehensive list, it does include regional centers which serve as nursing repositories, a selection of web sites with both nursing and general history content, as well as other nursing history organizations.
Bibliography
A list of resources on the history of nursing and on historiography.

Other Websites

Beyond TLC: Missouri Women in the Health Science Professions
Provides information on some of the pioneering and prominent Missouri women in the health science professions during the 20th century. The site both profiles individual women and explores women’s contributions to the development of health science professions such as nursing, occupational and physical therapy, and medical social work.
Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP)
Documents the contributions of women in the military and related service organizations since World War I. The WVHP’s strengths are oral histories and materials from veterans of World War II.
Faces of AMWA, the American Medical Women's Association
Click on a female physician's picture or name to learn about that leader in medicine.
Women in Duke Medicine: An Oral History Exhibit
This exhibit includes women from multiple fields at Duke Medicine. Many of these women were pioneers or in some way firsts in those disciplines, so each has a unique historical perspective.