To the Ends of the Earth

by Bonner, Thomas Neville

• ISBN13: 9780674893047
• ISBN10: 0674893042
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

In this engagingly written book Thomas Bonner unveils the dramatic story of women's long struggle to become physicians. Focusing both on international comparisons and on the personal histories of many of the pioneers, their determination and dedication, their setbacks and successes, he shows how European and American women gradually broke through the wall of resistance to women in medicine. In pre-Civil War America, in Tsarist Russia, in Victorian England, special schools of medicine for women were widely established as early as 1850 as a kind of way-station on the road to medical coeducation. Only in Switzerland and France, at first, could women study medicine in classes with men. As a result, hundreds and then thousands of women from Russia, Eastern Europe, England, and the United States enrolled in Swiss or Parisian universities to gain the first-class education that was denied them at home. Coming almost literally from "the ends of the earth," they formed the largest migration of professional women in history.

Table of Contents

Prologue: 1871

Women and the Study of Medicine Women in an Economic Squeeze

Why Women Should Not Be Doctors

The American Context Medical Colleges for Women Segregation and Its Effects

The American Achievement

Zurich and Paris Rendezvous in Zurich

Nadezhda Suslova: The Russian Pioneer

The Legend of Frances Elizabeth Morgan

First American: Susan Dimock The Russian Crisis

The Opening of Paris A New Beginning

The Great Migration After the Pioneers

The Opening of Bern Geneva and Lausanne

The Fight for the Internship in France Floodtide

The End of an Era

Women, Medicine, and Revolution in Russia Higher Education for Women

The Case of Varvara Kashevarova Medical Courses for Women

New Setbacks Triumph and Chaos

Imperial Germany Verboten: The Ban on Women in Medicine

The Bitter Debate

The Turn of the Tide Before the War

The Fight for Coeducation in Britain

The Battle of Edinburgh

Why Women Should Not Study with Men

A Women's School in London New Openings for Women

America: Triumph and Paradox

Coeducation and Separatism Coeducation Slowly Advances

The Demise of the Women's Schools Success and Disappointment

Epilogue: Since 1914

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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