Pioneers of the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1947)

Pioneers of the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1947)
Author: Marelene Rayner-Canham
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2022-02-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030954390

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW). The account is placed within the framework of the long-forgotten background to the founding of this unique Institution, and the individuals whose lives came together to make it happen: Sophia Jex-Blake; Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Edith Pechey; and Isabel Thorne. The London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) was the first School in Britain to enable women to gain medical qualifications. Though its pioneering medical role is beginning to be recognized, the Chemistry Department at the School has been totally overlooked. All first-year students at the LSMW had to spend a significant portion of their time taking theoretical and practical chemistry, taught by dedicated women chemistry instructors. In this book, particular attention is given to each of these exceptionally-talented women chemists who found a haven at, and devoted their lives to, the LSMW. This book also covers the enthusiasm of the women medical students which becomes evident through the chemistry prose and poetry which they wrote. This book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the early role of women in science, and it is particularly relevant to those interested in the lives and contributions of pioneering women chemists.

Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists

Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists
Author: Marelene Rayner-Canham
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2024-09-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1837674949

Continuing their research uncovering the lives of women chemists at the turn of the 20th Century, Geoff and Marelene Rayner-Canham have turned their attention to some of the male chemists who enabled women to thrive in chemistry. This book provides an insight into the character of 14 male chemists and their female students. Using contemporary quotes, the authors build an interesting narrative, demonstrating how the support and encouragement of their students was reciprocated with significant contributions to their fame and research. Beyond the lives of individuals, readers will explore a period of social change in chemistry, not only the acceptance of co-educational teaching, but also the development of domestic chemistry as a subject. Significantly, this period also saw the acceptance of women into the Chemical Society, championed by several of the men featured.

British Archives

British Archives
Author: Janet Foster
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 891
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1349095656

This guide contains over 1000 entries of centres holding archive and manuscript collections in the UK includes many newly-established and specialist archives and their details. This edition includes over 400 additional entries, new indexes and cross-references.

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
Author: Allen Kent
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1975-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780824720162

"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

Sympathy and Science

Sympathy and Science
Author: Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2005-10-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0807876089

When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in the nineteenth century to enter medical schools and found their own institutions and organizations; and follows female physicians into the twentieth century, exploring their efforts to sustain significant and rewarding professional lives without sacrificing the other privileges and opportunities of womanhood. In a new preface, the author surveys recent scholarship and comments on the changing world of women in medicine over the past two decades. Despite extraordinary advances, she concludes, women physicians continue to grapple with many of the issues that troubled their predecessors.

A Dictionary of British History

A Dictionary of British History
Author: John Ashton Cannon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2009-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199550379

This reference covers all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day. Over 3600 entries describe the people and events that have shaped domestic, political, social and cultural life in Britain over the past two millennia.

Women Pioneers of Medical Research

Women Pioneers of Medical Research
Author: King-Thom Chung
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2014-12-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0786458178

While most laymen could recognize Florence Nightingale as the founder of modern nursing, it's doubtful they could likewise identify Louise Pearce as one of the primary researchers in the cure for African Sleeping Sickness or Anna W. Williams as the discoverer of the diphtheria antitoxin. This book profiles 25 women who have made significant contributions to medical research, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lydia Folger Fowler, Virginia Apgar, and Rosalind Franklin, among others. Each profile includes a general introduction and covers the woman's childhood or family background, her formal education, her most valuable contributions to the field, and the important events or persons which influenced her life and career.

The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography

The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography
Author: Jennifer S. Uglow
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781555534219

The most comprehensive reference book of its kind, with more than 60 new entries in this third edition.

A Bibliography of Medical and Biomedical Biography

A Bibliography of Medical and Biomedical Biography
Author: Leslie Thomas Morton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This text now includes references to relevant literature in most modern European languages, and covers a wide spectrum of medico-scientific endeavour.