Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians
 Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, is presenting "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians" in the Collins Gallery. The exhibition will run from June 18 through August 1, 2008.
This exhibit tells the stories of some of the many extraordinary women who have studied and practiced medicine and their struggles over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in the medical specialties they chose.
This nationally touring exhibit is based on a larger exhibition that was displayed at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md., from 2003–2005. The exhibit also includes two interactive kiosks offering access to the NLM's "Local Legends," which features outstanding women physicians from every state, and to the website created for the larger exhibition at the NLM. The exhibition website offers access to educational and professional resources for people considering medicine as a career, as well as lesson plans for classroom activities. The section called "Share Your Story" allows the public to add the names and biographies of women physicians they know.
The exhibit will also be augmented by materials from the Historical Collections & Archives of Oregon Health & Science University. Items on display will be drawn from the History of Medicine, Manuscript, Historical Image, Pacific Northwest Archives, and Medical Museum collections. This portion of the presentation will showcase the lives and practice of women physicians in Oregon.
Events include an opening reception; a keynote lecture on the history of women in medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University auditorium; a careers in medicine panel discussion; and a look at the life and career of Dr. Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, an 1894 graduate from the University of Oregon Medical School and a key figure in Progressive era Oregon public health and suffrage campaigns.
Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians was developed by the Exhibition Program of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health. The American Medical Women's Association provided additional support.
Additional local support provided by Portland State University, Western Oregon University, the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and the Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering & Mathematics.
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