Eliza Maria Mosher

Eliza Maria Mosher ( born October 2, 1846 in Poplar Ridge / Cayuga County, † October 16, 1928 in New York City ) was an American physician and the first female full professor at the University of Michigan.

Biography

Mosher, daughter of a Quaker family, the primary school graduated at Union Springs Seminary. She started in 1869 their medical training at the New England Hospital for Women and Children and was allowed despite the absence of completion of a graduate college study as so-called " amateur interns " together with four other women in 1871 in the first coeducational passage at the Medical School of the University of Michigan anatomy, where they 1875 graduated. From 1879 to 1880 continued his education along with her fellow student Amanda Sanford medicine in London and then in Paris. Subsequently, she worked in Poughkeepsie, where their former fellow student Elizabeth Hait Gerow practiced. She was among other things, superintendent at Reformed women's prison in Sherborn (Massachusetts), taught as the first female professor at the University of Michigan the tray hygiene at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie and worked as a health educator at the Chautauqua Summer School, being content to focus their teaching placed on physical training and health care. In 1896 she became the first female dean of the college. Your teaching they had to give up in this context. From 1905 to 1928 she was editor of the Medical Woman's Journal, published in 1912, the magazine Health and Happiness -A Message to Girls.