Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments Iam grateful for the support of many colleagues and friends who helped me in a variety of intellectual, emotional, and material ways. I am fortunate to count among my mentors Carol Mattingly and Nan Johnson, both of whom read drafts and talked me through the revision, restructuring, and rethinking necessary to bring this project into its current form. My writing group, Liz Weiser and Cassie Parente, helped me see things I couldn’t see in my own writing and made suggestions that constantly impressed me with their generosity and commitment. Lindal Buchanan also read for me and offered advice and a sympathetic ear. I am also thankful for the support and advice of others who contributed along the way. At the University of Louisville, Nancy Theriot, Beth Boehm, and Debra Journet all offered support and thoughtful feedback. At Ohio State, Brenda Brueggemann, Susan Delagrange, and Jim Fredal read drafts and provided useful suggestions. I counted on Kimberly Harrison and Wendy Hayden to answer questions and offer sound advice. Anne-Marie Pedersen, always a careful reader, kept me on my writerly toes. Colleagues at OSU–Mansfield—Cynthia Callahan, Susan Delagrange, Norman Jones, and Barbara McGovern—listened as I talked my way through sticking points and encouraged me throughout the process. I also appreciate the support extended by Rod and Rosie Tolliver, who allowed me to stay in their home while I visited archives. Theodora Kopestonsky helped me think through various conceptions of ethos, and Bethany Skinner helped me interpret nineteenth-century medical thought, explaining contemporary obstetrics and gynecology to me so that I could make sense of historical medical research. The interlibrary loan staff at the University of Louisville and OSU came through for me time and time again, locating rare, old books for me. Matt s xii Acknowledgments Herbison, archivist at the Drexel University College of Medicine, assisted me in accessing texts and images from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania archives. Rebecca Jewett, assistant curator in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at OSU also helped me locate an image. The staff at OSU’s College of Arts and Sciences Digital Media Services assisted me in collecting several images in electronic form. I benefited from an OSU-Mansfield Campus Seed Grant, which afforded me time to revise this project, and Campus research funds that defrayed publication costs. I am also grateful for financial assistance from OSU’s College of Arts and Humanities. Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan, editors of the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series, provided tough but ultimately very helpful revision suggestions, pushing this project farther along than I had imagined it could go. Kristine Priddy, Wayne Larsen, Barb Martin, and copy editor John Wilson at Southern Illinois University Press were always available to answer questions and provide valuable assistance. Finally, I am immensely grateful to my family, who encouraged me throughout the years I’ve been writing and revising: my parents, Thomas and Glenda Skinner, my sister Bethany, my brother Allen, and my grandparents , Glenn and Alice Williams, all of whom listened when I needed to talk and left me alone when I needed to work. My husband, Dan, deserves more thanks than I can express for his support, patience, advice, careful reading, and so much more. Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America ...