ID: GLSHW-4.3.5 Medical Research (1549-1600) Included here are studies on women who have been associated with human physiology, cytology, and other fields of medical research. GENERAL 1549 Alsop, Gulielma Fell. HISTORY OF THE WOMAN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 1850-1950. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1950. For most of the century, this was the only medical school in which women could be full professors of physiology and chairs of the department. 1550 Appel, Toby A., Cassidy, Marie M., and Tidball, M. Elizabeth. "Women in Physiology." In HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: THE FIRST CENTURY, 1887-1987, ed. by John R. Brobeck, Orr E. Reynolds, and Toby A. Appel, pp.381-390. Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society, 1987. The history of women's participation in the APS, emphasizing the progress of the 1970s. 1551 Fenn, Wallace O. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: THE THIRD QUARTER CENTURY, 1937-1962. Washington: American Physiological Society, 1963. See pp.65-67. 1552 Howell, William H., and Greene, Charles W. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: SEMICENTENNIAL, 1887-1937. Baltimore, MD: American Physiological Society, 1938. See pp.70-71. 1553 Marshall, Louise H. "The Facts of Life." PHYSIOLOGIST 8, no.2 (May 1965): 64-66. Statistics on supply and demand for physiologists, broken down by sex. 1554 Tidball, M. Elizabeth. "Brief History of Task Force on Women in Physiology." PHYSIOLOGIST 23, no.5 (October 1980): 12-13. 1555 Tidball, M. Elizabeth. "Report of the Task Force on Women in Physiology." PHYSIOLOGIST 17, no.2 (May 1974): 135-137. 1556 Tidball, M. Elizabeth. "Women in the Biosciences - A Brief Primer." PHYSIOLOGIST 18, no.1 (February 1975): 31-36. 1557 "Women in Physiology." PHYSIOLOGIST 23, no.6 (December 1980): 25-26. 1558 "Women in Physiology." PHYSIOLOGIST 24, no.3 (June/July 1981): 45-46. 1559 "Women in Physiology." PHYSIOLOGIST 26, no.3 (June 1983): 135-136. BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES OF INDIVIDUALS NOTE: NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN: THE MODERN PERIOD, edited by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980), lists seventeen women under "Medicine--Researchers." WOMEN IN THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH, edited by Patricia Joan Siegel and Kay Thomas Finley (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1985), has five "Medical Scientists--Physiologists": Caroline Wormeley Latimer, Ida Henrietta Hyde, Edith Jane Claypole, Anne Moore, and Judith Graham Pool. 1560 Allison, Truett, and Wood, Charles C. "Gasser and Graham and Spinal Cord Electrophysiology." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY : REGULATORY, INTEGRATIVE, AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 14, no.6 (December 1983): R751-R754. Discusses the work of Helen Tredway Graham. 1561 Bensley, E. H. "Sir William Osler and Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald." PHYSIOLOGIST 21, no.2 (April 1978): 17-18. 1562 Berg, Raissa L. ACQUIRED TRAITS: MEMORIES OF A GENETICIST FROM THE SOVIET UNION. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 1563 Brinkhous, K. M. "Judith Graham Pool, Ph.D. (1919-1975): An Appreciation." THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 35 (April 1976): 269-271. 1564 Brush, Stephen G. "Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes." ISIS 69, no.247 (June 1978): 163-172. 1565 Corner, George W. GEORGE HOYT WHIPPLE AND HIS FRIENDS: THE LIFE STORY OF A NOBEL PRIZE PATHOLOGIST. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963. Includes information on Frieda S. Robscheit-Robbins, Whipple's chief assistant 1566 Farnes, Patricia. "Women in Medical Science." In WOMEN OF SCIENCE: RIGHTING THE RECORD, ed. by G. Kass-Simon & Patricia Farnes, pp.268-299. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990. 1567 Fee, Elizabeth, and Rodman, Anne Clark. "Janet Howell Clark: Physiologist and Biophysicist (1889-1969)." PHYSIOLOGIST 28, no.5 (October 1985): 397-400. 1568 Fetterman, George H. "Maud L. Menton (1879-1960)." PERSPECTIVES IN PEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY 1, no.1 (Spring 1984): 5-7. 1569 Goldfeder, Anna. "An Overview of Fifty Years of Cancer Research." CANCER RESEARCH 36, no.1 (January 1976): 1-9. Autobiography. 1570 Goodfield, June. AN IMAGINED WORLD: A STORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. An intimate portrait of five years in the life of a cancer researcher. 1571 Guttman, Rita. "Biographical Notice - Caroline tum Suden." PHYSIOLOGIST 23, no.6 (December 1980): 25-26. 1572 Hamburger, Viktor. "Hilde Mangold, Co-Discoverer of the Organizer." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY 17, no.1 (Spring 1984): 1-11. Mangold researched embryonic differentiation. 1573 Harvey, A. McGehee. "A New School of Anatomy: The Story of Franklin P. Mall, Florence R. Sabin, and John B. MacCallum." JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL JOURNAL 136, no.2 (February 1975): 83-84. 1574 Haywood, Charlotte. "A Scientific Heritage." MOUNT HOLYOKE ALUMNI QUARTERLY 43, no.3 (Fall 1959): 122-125. Personal reflections on the history of physiology and biology at Mount Holyoke. 1575 Hyde, Ida H. "Before Women Were Human Beings: Adventures of an American Fellow in German Universities of the '90s." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN 31 (1938): 226-236. Autobiographical reminiscences of the 1890s. 1576 Johnson, Elsie Ernest. "Ida Henrietta Hyde: Early Experiments." PHYSIOLOGIST 24, no.6 (December 1981): 10-11. 1577 Kampmeier, R. H. "Ann Stone Minot (1894-1980): Clinical Chemist and Teacher." CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 32 (1986): 1602-1609. 1578 Kampmeier, R. H. "Ann Stone Minot: Vanderbilt Teacher and Clinical Chemist, 1894-1980." NUTRITION HISTORY NOTES 24 (Fall 1985): 1-6. 1579 Kohler, Robert E. "Innovation in Normal Science: Bacterial Physiology." ISIS 76, no.282 (June 1985): 162-181." Treats the career of Marjorie Stephenson. 1580 Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. "Physiological Lectures for Women: Sara Coates in Ohio, 1850." JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 33, no.1 (January 1978): 75-81. 1581 Kubie, Lawrence S. "Florence Rena Sabin." PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 4 (1961): 306-315. 1582 Levi-Montalcini, Rita. IN PRAISE OF IMPERFECTION: MY LIFE AND WORK. New York: Basic Books, 1988. Autobiography of an Italian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, who became a medical researcher, emigrated to the U.S., and shared the 1986 Nobel prize in medicine. Translated by Luigi Attardi. 1583 Levi-Montalcini, Rita. "Reflections on a Scientific Adventure." In WOMEN SCIENTISTS: THE ROAD TO LIBERATION, ed. by Derek Richter, pp.99-117. London: Macmillan, 1982. 1584 Long, C. N. H. "In Memoriam: Jane A. Russell." ENDOCRINOLOGY 81, no.4 (October 1967): 689-692. 1585 McCoy, Joseph J. THE CANCER LADY: MAUD SLYE AND HER HEREDITARY STUDIES. Nashville: Nelson, 1977. 1586 Meites, Samuel. "Willey Glover Denis (1879-1929), Pioneer Woman of Clinical Chemistry." CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 31 (1985): 774-778. 1587 Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, and Choquette, Clifford J. "Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912): Her Life and Contributions to Cytogenetics." PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 125 (1981): 292-311. 1588 Okey, Ruth. "Agnes Fay Morgan (1884-1968): A Biographical Sketch." JOURNAL OF NUTRITION 104, no.9 (September 1974): 1101-1107. 1589 Phelan, Mary Kay. PROBING THE UNKNOWN: THE STORY OF DR. FLORENCE SABIN. New York: Dell, 1976. Reprint of 1969 Crowell edition. 1590 THE PHYSICIANS OF THE MAYO CLINIC AND THE MAYO FOUNDATION. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1937. See brief biographies of Winifred Mayer Ashby (pp.57-57), Julia F. Herrick (pp.611-612), Grace M. Roth (pp.1208-1209), Irene Sandiford (pp.1233-1234). 1591 Root, Eliza H. "Frances Emily White, M.D." WOMAN'S MEDICAL JOURNAL 14, no.5 (May 1904): 97-99. 1592 Roscher, Nina M., and Nguyen, Chinh K. "Helen M. Dyer: A Pioneer in Cancer Research." JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 63 (1986): 253-255. 1593 Rossiter, Margaret W. "Florence Sabin: Election to the N.A.S." AMERICAN BIOLOGY TEACHER 39, no.9 (November 1977): 484-486, 494. 1594 Schmidt-Nielson, Bodil. "August and Marie Krogh and Respiratory Physiology." JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY: RESPIRATORY, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY 54, no.2 (1984): 293-303. Biographical account by Marie Krogh's daughter, herself a physiologist. 1595 Seibert, Florence B. PEBBLES ON THE HILL OF A SCIENTIST. St. Petersburg, FL: 1968. Autobiography of a biochemist. 1596 Tepperman, Jay. "Jane Anne Russell (Wilhelmi)." PHYSIOLOGIST 10, no.4 (November 1967): 443-444. 1597 A TRIBUTE TO LILIAN WELSH. Baltimore: Goucher College, 1938. 42-page collection includes pieces by physiologists Jessie L. King and Florence Sabin. 1598 Tucker, Gail S. "Ida Henrietta Hyde: The First Woman Member of the Society." PHYSIOLOGIST 24, no.6 (December 1981): 1-9. 1599 Welsh, Lilian. REMINISCENCES OF THIRTY YEARS IN BALTIMORE. Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1925. 1600 Windholz, George. "Three Researchers in Pavlov's Laboratories." NWSA JOURNAL 1 (Spring 1989): 491-496. Nadezhda A. Kashereninova, Nataliia R. Shenger-Krestovnikova, and Mariia K. Petrova.
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