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Blackguarding: How the Conflict of the "Jeering Episode" Created Compromise for Women Physicians
- Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 86, Number 1, Winter 2019
- pp. 103-123
- Article
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abstract:
The 1869 "Jeering Episode" at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia occurred when women medical students were taunted by male students at a clinical lecture. Through public sentiment, a compromise permitted women to learn the practice of medicine.