National Library of Medicine | 7th Annual NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine @NLMNIH | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Kelly O' Donnell, PhD, 2019 DeBakey Fellow & Lecturer, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University - 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
"Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care"
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Marrying a doctor was presented as an aspirational goal for many young women in the twentieth century United States. For those who succeeded in securing a physician husband, however, married life was often hard work. From fundraising for hospital construction to waging political campaigns to answering patients’ phone calls, the doctor’s wife was an essential part of the growth of the American health care system as we know it. Drawing on a wide variety of NLM resources—particularly the publications of medical women’s auxiliary groups—this talk will argue that an understanding of marriage and domestic partnership has been an unfortunately neglected key element in our histories of medicine.
#historyofmedicine
Kelly O' Donnell, PhD, 2019 DeBakey Fellow & Lecturer, History of Science and Medicine, Yale University - 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
"Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care"
nlm.nih.gov/hmd/lectures/index.html
Marrying a doctor was presented as an aspirational goal for many young women in the twentieth century United States. For those who succeeded in securing a physician husband, however, married life was often hard work. From fundraising for hospital construction to waging political campaigns to answering patients’ phone calls, the doctor’s wife was an essential part of the growth of the American health care system as we know it. Drawing on a wide variety of NLM resources—particularly the publications of medical women’s auxiliary groups—this talk will argue that an understanding of marriage and domestic partnership has been an unfortunately neglected key element in our histories of medicine.
#historyofmedicine
![Hohenkrankheit [Silent] (Producer not identified, 1929?)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZtOd39AWmVU/hqdefault.jpg "Hohenkrankheit [Silent] (Producer not identified, 1929?)
Title translates in English as altitude sickness. A man wearing a hat folded from newspaper is writing on a piece of paper. A hand reaches in and places a breathing apparatus in the mans mouth. Other men are shown wearing aviator goggles, writing on paper, and using the breathing apparatus. One man repeatedly holds his hands out from his body, examining their movement. Some of the people in the film wear white coats, suggesting they are scientists or doctors. In the final frames, three men and a woman, all in white coats, are outside, smiling and handling a camera and what appears to be a length of string. This film was made approximately one year after the Deutsche Forschungsrat für Luftfahrt (German Aeronautics Research Council) was founded.
Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101773260
Learn more about the National Library of Medicines historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films
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