Eliza Maria Mosher

Eliza Maria Mosher (born October 2, 1846 in Poplar Ridge / Cayuga County , †  October 16, 1928 in New York City ) was an American medical doctor and first female full professor at the University of Michigan .

biography

Mosher, daughter of a Quaker family , graduated from elementary school at Union Springs Seminary . She started in 1869 her medical training at the New England Hospital for Women and Children and was allowed despite the absence of completion of a graduate college as so-called "amateur interns" together with four other women in 1871 in the first coeducational passage at the medical school of the University of Michigan anatomy study, where they 1875 graduated. From 1879 to 1880, she and her fellow student Amanda Sanford studied medicine in London and then in Paris . She then worked in Poughkeepsie , where her former fellow student Elizabeth Hait Gerow also practiced. Among other things, she was superintendent at the reformed women's prison in Sherborn (Massachusetts) ( Massachusetts ), taught hygiene at Vassar College of Poughkeepsie as the first female professor at the University of Michigan and worked as a health educator at the Chautauqua Summer School , where her content was Her teaching focused on physical exercise and health care . In 1896 she became the first female dean of the university. In this context, she had to give up teaching. From 1905 to 1928 she was the editor of the Medical Woman's Journal and published the magazine Health and Happiness-A Message to Girls in 1912 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Eliza Mosher, first Dean of Women (English).
2. ↑ First Ladies in Medicine at Michigan ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)