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Women Physicians: Autobiography of Hannah Longshore
http://xdl.drexelmed.edu/viewer.php?object_id=2118&t=womanmd#
Origin: This autobiography came from the Papers of Longshore Family 1819-1902 and was handwritten around January 1, 1908 by Hannah Longshore.
Purpose: The purpose of this document was to outline the life of Hannah Longshore. It discusses the struggles of women on their path to becoming physicians and being accepted as medical professionals in society. It talks about the fact that men as physicians were more accepted than women were.
Limitations: This document is indeed limited due to the fact that it does not include any personal life details or events about Hannah Longshore, which is what the document is supposed to do. It only includes details about the suffering that women who aspired to be physicians had to endure. The document also does not include any details about the writer of the Autobiography herself so we are unaware of her stance on this issue.
Value: This source is valuable to a historian because it shows the real life struggles that the people in the movement for women physicians were faced with. It is significant because it mentions Rev. Henry D. Moore and how he was one of the few male supporters of the movement.
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