Women of Mayo Clinic: The Founding Generation

ISBN-13: 9781681340005

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Publication Date: 03-01-2016

Pages: 232

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

A member of the writing faculty at the Universityof Minnesota Rochester, Virginia M. Wright-Peterson has written for Minnesota Public Radio, the Rochester Post-Bulletin, and the Twin Cities Daily Planet. She has worked at Mayo Clinic for nearly two decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Note on Names xiii

Part 1 Unlikely Beginning

Chapter 1 Disaster Strikes, August 21, 1883 5

Chapter 2 Arriving in Pioneer Rochester, 1851-1883 13

Part 2 Women and the Early Medical Practice

Chapter 3 Opening Saint Marys Hospital, 1889-1897 31

Chapter 4 Building the Practice, 1898-1906 61

Part 3 Steady Expansion

Chapter 5 Reaching Around the Globe, 1907-1913 81

Chapter 6 The Needs of the Patient Come First, 1914-1919 101

Chapter 7 Extending the Long Arm of the Physician, 1920-1926 125

Part 4 Challenges and Changes

Chapter 8 Meeting the Expanding Needs, 1922-1927 143

Chapter 9 Changing the Guard, 1928-1943 163

Afterword: The Legacy 185

Acknowledgments 188

Appendix: Frequently Mentioned Women 191

Notes 193

Index 209

Picture Credits 218