Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Volume II: Medical Women in Fiction

Claire Brock

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032207919
• eBook ISBN: 9781040016176
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century. This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women's entry into the medical profession, and their experiences once qualified. This volume broadens literary and cultural understanding of female doctors through the selection of sources which are less well-known or more difficult to find, as well as considering global examples or contexts. By including sources which reveal both supportive and derogatory assessments, and by male and female authors, a wide range of opinions regarding women's efficacy as medical practitioners are considered. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• General Editors’ Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology: Selected Key Dates
• General Introduction
• Introduction
• 1 ‘The Medical Wife’
• 2 ‘And There Was Light’ and ‘Grouped on the Lawn’, Excerpts from Dr Victoria
• 3 Excerpts from Peace with Honour
• 4 Excerpts from Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
• 5 Gertrude Mason, M.D. Or The Lady Doctor. A Farce in One Act for Female Characters Only
• 6 ‘Behind the Purdah’
• 7 Excerpts from Dr Ellen
• Bibliography
• Index