THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND TECHNOLOGY:
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO THE PROFESSIONS AND THE DISCIPLINES

Medical Research (1549-1600)


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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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