Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians

Times: Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Location: Falls Center, 3300 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia 19129

[Former site of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania]

"Changing the Face of Medicine" tells the extraordinary story of how American women who wanted to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in a specialty field. This exhibition was developed by the Exhibition Program of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, in collabroation with the American Library Association's Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition is based on a larger exhibition that was displayed at the NLM from 2003-2005, and the NLM hosts an online counterpart.

The opening evening, on October 6 at 5:00 p.m., will feature "A Lady Alone," a one-woman, one-act play portraying Elizabeth Blackwell, first American woman physician.