A New and Untried Course

Lively, readable, and meticulously researched, Steve Peitzman lovingly and valiantly retrieves the fascinating history of the premier training institution for women physicians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will join a list of 'must-reads' for those interested in the history of women physicians in the United States, as well as appeal to historians of medicine, women, and the professions. Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

A New and Untried Course is a fascinating and superbly executed study of an important medical school - richly researched, beautifully written, highly nuanced, and elegantly contextualized in women's, medical, and cultural history. It will become a model for writing the history of medical schools. Kenneth M. Ludmerer, author of Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Manage