Lecture: "Why Support a Women's Medical College? Philadelphia's Early Male Medical Pro-Feminists" by Steven J. Peitzman (New York Academy of Medicine: New York, NY, 24 January 2001)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from ALHHS-L. In addition to being of general interest, the paper refers to (neuro)surgeon W.W. Keen and neuropsychiatrist Charles K. Mills. Russell Johnson --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:38:55 -0500 (EST) From: Ed Morman <emorman@nyam.org> Subject: HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINAR: 19th-Century Male Medical Proto-Feminists To: ALHHS internal email list <alhhs-l@mail.upstate.edu> The next in the New York Academy of Medicine's series of evening history seminars will be held in the Academy building (1216 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street) at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, January 24, 2001. Steven J. Peitzman, of the MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, will present the following paper: "Why Support a Women's Medical College? Philadelphia's Early Male Medical Pro-Feminists" Steve is a nephrologist and an accomplished historian who has spent his entire career at the medical school founded in 1850 as the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A NEW AND UNTRIED COURSE: WOMAN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE AND MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1850-1998 (Rutgers University Press, 2000), in many ways exemplary of the best in institutional history writing. He's a physician who understands history, and a historian who knows medicine. We will convene at 6:00 for Steve's presentation and a general discussion. A complementary supper will be served at 7:30. All who attend are expected to have read the paper in advance. It is available on the web at http://www.nyam.org/history/wmc.html , and in PDF format at http://www.nyam.org/history/pdf/wmc.pdf The paper itself is prefaced by a short letter from Steve that may prove useful in generating discussion. Steve also recommends as "optional reading" pp. 9-15 and 82-94 of his book. Please contact me if you plan to attend and have trouble downloading or printing the paper from the web, or if you need assistance in locating a copy of A NEW AND UNTRIED COURSE. Please also let me know if you plan to stay for supper, so that I will be able to coordinate with our caterer. Ed Morman Associate Librarian for Collections and Historical Programs The New York Academy of Medicine emorman@nyam.org 212-822-7314 Unlike the public lectures sponsored by the Academy's Section on Historical Medicine, these seminars are intended only for people with a scholarly interest in the history of medicine and related fields. Attendees generally include faculty and graduate students in history and other fields, physicians, other health professionals, librarians and archivists, and journalists and science writers. Papers are pre-circulated (generally through this web-site, but occasionally only by mail). All are welcome who have read the paper in advance and are prepared to participate in an informed, critical, discussion. The seminar convenes at 6:00 PM, followed by a complimentary supper. We meet at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 103rd Street). The remaining dates, speakers, and topics of these seminars are as follows: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 Kirby Randolph, University of Pennsylvania "Psychiatry v. the Negro: Nineteenth Century Diagnosis and Treatment of African Americans with Mental Illness." Wednesday, April 25, 2001 Susan Lederer, Ph.D., Yale University topic to be announced: either blood transfusion and the politics of race, or organ transplantation. --- End Forwarded Message ---