User talk:Kcawley1

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:40, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Good work completing the training modules!Edw04005 (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Potential Research Topics

1.) Dr. Mercy B. Jackson, M.D. 2.) Boston's New England Female Medical College 3.) Westbrook Seminary 4.) Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat

Ideally, I would love to research someone or something related to the field of medicine, as I am a medically biology major and pre-med and would love to learn more about women's start in medicine. Thus, Boston's New England Female Medical College and Dr. Mercy B. Jackson, M.D. are my top choices for research topics. As a UNE student I am also very interested in the history of our school and would enjoy learning more about the Westbrook Seminary. If my other research topics do not work out, Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat also seems like an interesting woman who has not seen her share of attention, and deserves some recognition with a Wikipedia page.

Kcawley1 (talk) 03:40, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Response to topics

Great topics! The Boston Female Medical College is just crying for elaboration -- and I know there is material you can use to give it more context. The entry on Wikipedia (New England Female Medical College) is very brief.

Dr. Mercy Jackson is wide open. Are there good secondary sources you can use? You might look and see what you can find. (Was this on the librarians list? If so, you might contact librarian Roberta Gray at rgray@une.edu for help)

Westbrook Seminary and Sweat are strong backup topics if the above two don't work out. I know these are on at least one other student's list. My gut? Go with the Medical College or Jackson (if there are sources). Edw04005 (talk) 21:51, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Sources

1. Gardner, Martha N. Midwife, Doctor, or Doctress?: The New England Female Medical College and Women's Place in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Society. Diss. Brandeis U, 2002. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Microform, 2002. Print.
2. Gregory, Samuel. Letter to Ladies in Favor of Female Physicians for Their Own Sex. 3rd ed. Boston: The College, 1856. pp. 4-50.
3. Report of the Female Medical Education Society, From November, 1848, to December, 1850; Containing The Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, Names of Officers and Members, Together with Information Respecting the Boston Female Medical School and the Proposed Clinical Hospital, Which Is to Form a Part of the Institution. Boston: Wright & Husty Printers, 1851. pp. 3-16.
4. "The Medical Education of Women." The British Medical Journal 2.624 (1872): 659. Print.
5. Tuchman, Arleen M. "Situating Gender: Marie E. Zakrzewska and the Place of Science in Women's Medical Education." Isis 95.1 (2004): 34-57.
6. Waite, Frederick Clayton. History of the New England Female Medical College, 1848-1874. Boston: Boston U School of Medicine, 1950. p.132.
7. Walsh, Mary R. "Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine." The American Historical Review 91.3 (1986): 748.
8. Watson, Wilbur H. “The Early Years of Medical Education for Blacks in the United States.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 24 (1999): p. 135.