Curating History in the COVID19 Era: Philadelphia Epidemics and Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Medical Education

Physician and educator Henry Hartshorne’s manuscript medical school lecture notes serve as a remarkable record of the response by faculty women students in Philadelphia to transitions from post-bellum education scientific, laboratory-based curriculum. These archives document tensions felt throughout system due extended classroom hours competition for limited clinical rotation assignments experienced those treating patients urban during 1870s. Hartshorne was not only physician who trained female attendees at area institutions including Women’s Medical College this point transition both practice medicine.