Air date: January 17, 2010

Host: Barbara Lewis

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Interview: Lucy King, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry emerita, IU School of Medicine.

Nationwide, 49-percent of medical students are now women.

Obviously, that’s an enormous shift from a century ago, when there were few women doctors, and those women who did attend medical school were often limited to treating only women and children.

Former IU professor of psychiatry Dr. Lucy King has been researching some of the nation’s earliest female doctors, and she is here in the studio to tell some of their remarkable stories.

Additional Resources:

• A walking trail of women in medicine at the IUPUI campus. (PDF)
• More about the history of women in medicine at MomMD.
• Learn about the history of women at the IU School of Medicine.
• Another interview with Dr. Lucy King.

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