Reminiscences of Sarah Marcus : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Southern, Jewish childhood; discrimination against women in medicine; University of Michigan Medical School 1916-20, internship in Akron; South Cleveland practice; Maternal Health Center, Cleveland from 1928: sexuality and marriage counseling, artificial insemination; Womans General Hospital from 1924: President of the Board 1957-72; Chief of OB-GYN Department; history of Womans Hospital; Supreme Court testimony on mandatory maternity leave.

Subjects

• Chesler, Ellen, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Marcus, Sarah, 1894-
• Maternal and infant welfare.
• Maternity leave.
• Oral histories.
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Women's health services.
• Women--Health and hygiene.
• Women physicians--Interviews.

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