American Medical Women's Association
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
American Medical Women's Association records
Collection
Identifier: WM-037
Overview
American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) was founded on November 18, 1915, by a dedicated group of women physicians at the Chicago Women’s Club. Originally called Medical Women’s National Association (MWNA) until 1937, AMWA has advocated for women in the medical professions and the equal treatment of women in medicine since its inception. AMWA continues to serve the United States and the international community in medical service needs and acts as an important lobbying force for...
Dates:
1847 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1917-1978
American Women's Hospitals Service photographs
Collection
Identifier: WM-144-a
Overview
The American Women's Hospitals (AWH) developed from the War Service Committee of the Medical Women's National Association (later called the American Medical Women's Association) in 1917, to provide, register and finance American women physicians for war work; to offer medical and emergency relief to refugees; and, later, to provide international public health service. In 1959, AWH became an independent agency and remained such until 1982 when it re-merged with the American Medical Women's...
Dates:
1917 - 1982
Catharine Macfarlane papers
Collection
Identifier: WM-047
Overview
Catharine Macfarlane graduated from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1898, and later became an instructor in obstetrics at the college and a professor of gynecology. She was the first woman to be elected to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1935. Macfarlane devoted much of her career to cancer research and prevention, specifically pelvic cancer. In 1956, she became the first woman to serve as Chairman for the Medical Society of Pennsylvania’s Commission on Cancer....
Dates:
1895-1971; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1960
Bertha Van Hoosen papers
Collection
Identifier: WM-145
Overview
Bertha Van Hoosen (1863-1952), a doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology in Chicago, IL, founded the American Medical Women's Association. Her collection includes correspondence, journal articles, plans for a Medical Women's Library at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, teaching material, images, and bibliographic material regarding women in medicine. A large part of the collection concerns Van Hoosen's interests in the National Medical Women's Association, later the American...
Dates:
1913 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1950
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- Photographs 3
- Women in medicine 3
- Women physicians 3
- Biographies 2
- Correspondence 2
- Medical libraries 2
- Medicine 2
- Physicians 2
- World War II 2
- American Medical Women's Association 1
- American Women's Hospitals 1
- Anesthetics 1
- Articles 1
- Asia 1
- Audiovisual materials 1
- Cancer -- Research -- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Cancer -- Treatment 1
- Card indexes 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Child welfare 1
- Clinics 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Curricula 1
- Educational fund raising 1
- France 1
- Greece 1
- Gynecology 1
- Hospitals 1
- India 1
- Libraries 1
- Medical Women's International Association 1
- Medical education 1
- Medical instruments and apparatus 1
- Medical journals -- articles 1
- Medicine -- History 1
- Medicine, Preventive 1
- Missionaries, Medical 1
- Negatives (photographic) 1
- Nurses 1
- Obstetrics 1
- Poverty 1
- Public health 1
- Publications 1
- Refugees 1
- Rural population 1
- Serbia 1
- Slides (photographs) 1
- Southern States 1
- Turkey 1
- Uterus -- Cancer 1
- War -- Medical aspects 1
- War work 1
- Women medical students 1
- Women physicians -- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- World War I 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals 1 ∧ less
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