Humanities & Social Sciences Early female N.C. doctor to be talk topic
| Early female N.C. doctor to be talk topic |
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| Monday, October 26, 2009 | |
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UNC clinical assistant surgery professor Elizabeth Barthold Dreesen will speak about “Susan Dimock and the Company She Kept” at 4 p.m. Nov. 17 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public lecture will be in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center on Stadium Drive. Dimock became the first female member of the North Carolina Medical Society, in 1872. A Washington, N.C. native, Dimock died only three years later at age 28. At the time of her death, she was a well-respected surgeon, author and medical educator. Dimock was a Southerner who moved to Massachusetts in the middle of the Civil War, an American student in a Swiss medical school, and a female surgeon in orthodox male medicine, Dreesen said. Dreesen’s exploration of Dimock’s life sheds light on women’s education in antebellum North Carolina. Her talk also discusses women’s entry into the medical field and the rise of nursing education, public health and anti-sepsis procedures. The talk is one of the James A. Hutchins Lectures presented by the Center for the Study of the American South, with support from the UNC General Alumni Association. The late Hutchins was a UNC alumnus and a founder of CARE, the international anti-poverty organization. For more information call the Center for the Study of the American South at (919) 962-5665. Center for the Study of the American South Web site: http://www.uncsouth.org/ Center for the Study of the American South contact: Lisa Beavers, (919) 962-0503, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it News Services contact: LJ Toler, (919) 962-8589
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