Women Physicians Honored in New Web Site
A new Web site from the National Library
of Medicine (NLM) promises to become an invaluable
resource for students, educators and anyone else
with an interest in medical history.
The
Web site accompanies an NLM exhibition titled "Changing
the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women
Physicians," which opens this week at the
Bethesda, Md., library. Visitors to www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine can
play interactive games, download lesson plans and
search for biographies of featured women physicians
around the country.
"The exhibit shows women physicians
through history, making independent and daring decisionsÐfounding
institutions and winning Nobel prizes," says
Dr. Ellen More, professor of history of medicine
and medical humanities at the University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston and visiting curator
for the project.
More is author of Restoring the Balance:
Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine,
1850-1995 (Harvard,
1999). The book has just been awarded the 2003
History of Science Society's women in science book
prize. The NLM exhibit will run for 18 months before
touring the nation, while the Web siteÑthe most
comprehensive of its kindÑwill be updated and maintained
for posterity.#
