{"id":2253,"date":"2012-09-12T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2012-11-20T17:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T00:42:48","slug":"bagley-presents-the-womans-face-of-medicine-in-frontier-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/2012\/09\/12\/bagley-presents-the-womans-face-of-medicine-in-frontier-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagley Presents The Woman&#8217;s Face of Medicine in Frontier Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join the<a title=\"Changing the Face of Medicine - Will Bagley\" href=\"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library<\/a> on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for Will Bagley presenting <a title=\"Changing the Face of Medicine - Will Bagley\" href=\"http:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/or\/infofair\/infofair2012\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Woman&#8217;s Face of Medicine in Frontier Utah<\/em><\/a>. This event is located in the George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium on the first floor. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>As old barriers crumble, the face of modern medicine is rapidly changing, but a look back at Utah&#8217;s colorful history reveals some surprising precedents. &#8220;A doctor if He had good sens[e] would not wish to visit women in child birth,&#8221; Brigham Young said in his medical lecture to the Board of Health at Great Salt Lake City in December 1851. &#8220;And if a woman had good sense she would not wish a man to doctor them on such an occasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The territory&#8217;s early Mormon settlers were dedicated naturopaths of the Thompsonian persuasion, and as President Young&#8217;s words indicate, women dominated several fields of medical science, notably pediatrics. Frontier midwife Patty Bartlett Sessions recorded 3,977 births, with only &#8220;two difficult cases,&#8221; and performed her last delivery at the age of 85. During her career, Dr. Ellis Shipp, an 1878 graduate of the Woman&#8217;s Medical College of Pennsylvania, delivered more than 5,000 babies at the Deseret Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Historian Will Bagley, whose great-great-grandparents lost seven children in three weeks to whooping cough, will take a fresh look at Utah&#8217;s surprising medical history and some of the courageous and colorful women who dealt courageously with diphtheria epidemics of 1864, 1872, 1891, 1900, and 1947.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for Will Bagley presenting The Woman&#8217;s Face of Medicine in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,152,4851],"tags":[4848],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-general-interest","category-outdated","tag-history-of-women-physicians-in-frontier-utah"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 08:24:45","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.med.utah.edu\/blog\/eccles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}