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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 records
Collection
Identifier: WM-144
Abstract
The collection contains the primary source material for a thorough institutional history of a major women's service organization that spans three-quarters of a century. Issues of professionalization, volunteerism, and social and occupational networks as they relate to women's professional and social careers are well-documented. The AWH records provide the sources to examine a classic example of a woman's association that self-consciously bridged private and public domains, actively sought to...
Dates:
1917-1982
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- Medical Women's International Association 1
- Medical education 1
- Medical journals -- articles 1
- Missionaries, Medical 1
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- War -- Medical aspects 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women in medicine 1
- Women in medicine -- History 1
- Women medical students 1
- Women physicians 1
- World War II 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Hospitals 1 ∧ less
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- American Medical Women's Association 1
- Elliott, Mabel Evelyn (b. 1881) 1
- Foulks, Sara 1
- Graff, Elfie Richards 1
- Gray, Etta G. (b. 1880) 1
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