Three Women at Johns Hopkins: Private Perspectives on Medical Coeducation in the 1890s
Authors: Joseph B. Shrager
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1991)

History of Medicine1 October 1991Three Women at Johns Hopkins: Private Perspectives on Medical Coeducation in the 1890sJoseph B. Shrager, MDJoseph B. Shrager, MDAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-115-7-564 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMuch has been written about the entry of women into American medicine. Most of this work, however, has focused on Elizabeth Blackwell's precedent-setting efforts at the Geneva Medical College beginning in 1847 or on the many women who entered one of the several all-female medical schools that were established soon thereafter. The female medical pioneers who entered predominantly male medical schools dealt with entirely different circumstances—circumstances that, in many ways, are more pertinent to contemporary issues surrounding the increasing presence of women in all varieties of medical practice.This article focuses on three women—Dorothy Reed, Florence Sabin, and Margaret Long—who...References1. Morantz-Sanchez R. Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press: 1985:125. Google Scholar2. Thomas E. How Women Medical Students First Came to Johns Hopkins: A Chronicle. Caroline Bedell Thomas Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; 1975. Google Scholar3. Drachmen V. Women Doctors and the Women's Medical Movement: Feminism and Medicine, 1850-1895. Buffalo, New York: State University of New York at Buffalo; 1976:217. Google Scholar4. Mendenhall D. [Letter to Margaret Long]. Margaret Long papers. [15 June 1900]. 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