Reminiscences of Elizabeth Councilman Rogers : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Education, decision to attend medical school; medical training at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts General Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital; practice with husband in Newburyport, Massachusetts; problems of being a woman doctor in the 1930s and 1940s; modernization of medical industry, rise of specialist; retirement in 1975; views on women in professions.

Subjects

• Cheek, Jeannette, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Medical care.
• Medicine--Practice.
• Oral histories.
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Rogers, Elizabeth Councilman.
• Women's health services.
• Women physicians--Interviews.

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