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Conference: "Pioneering Efforts of Women in Medicine and the Medical Sciences" (Stanford University, Stanford, CA: 10 March 2000)



The Pioneering Efforts of Women in Medicine and the Medical Sciences

Fairchild Auditorium
Stanford University

10 March 2000  


See <http://www-med.stanford.edu/womed/> for details.

Sessions include: 

- Session I: Mental Health; Space Medicine
- Session II: Challenges & Successes
- Session III: How We Got Where We Are
- Exhibit: " 'That Girl There is a Doctor in Medicine':  Elizabeth 
Blackwell, America's First Woman M.D." by Carol Clausen (National 
Library of Medicine, US)

Topics and speakers include: "Margaret Murray, Ph.D., and Mary Bartlett 
Bunge, Ph.D.: Pioneers in Tissue Culture of the Nervous System" by Mary 
Bartlett Bunge, Ph.D. (The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University 
of Miami School of Medicine) and "Who Gets to Fly: The Mental Health of 
Pioneering Women in Space" by Bettyann Holzmann Kevles (Charles A. 
Lindbergh chair, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian 
Institution, Washington DC, and author of _Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in
 the Twentieth Century_ (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 
1997)).


Russell Johnson

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