Margery Sved papers, 1972-1984

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Summary

Creator:
Sved, Margery, creator
Sved, Margery, donor
Abstract:
Margery (Margie) Sved, PhD is a psychiatrist practicing in the Triangle area of North Carolina. She champions issues related to women and members of the LGBTQ community in medicine. The Margery Sved papers document women's health organizations and events in the Triangle area from the 1970-80's including the Durham's Women Health Co-op and also include a notebook from a conference sponsored by AMWA (American Medical Women's Association) at Duke in 1980 on Leadership for Women in Medicine. There is also a file on an early conference of lesbian physicians.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language:
Material in English.
Research Center:
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Collection ID:
RL.11295

Background

Scope and content:

The Margery Sved papers contains materials documenting women's health organizations and events in the Triangle area of North Carolina from 1972-1985 including educational materials, notes from conferences and workshops related to women and minorities in medicine, information about the Durham's Women Health Co-op, and publications on women's health. The contents reflect the experiences of minority women in medicine and women's experiences in medical school and with medical associations.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Margery (Margie) Sved, PhD, is a psychiatrist in Raleigh, North Carolina. She received her medical degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and has been in practice since the late 1970s.

She is an active member of the AMWA (American Medical Women's Association); AAPHR (American Association of Physicians for Humans Rights); American Psychological Association's Committee of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Issues; and other prominent organizations. She has served in leadership in many of them. She is part of a committed group of lesbian physicians advocating for visibility related to mental health issues for women and minorities, particularly within the LQBTQ community.

Sved had been associated with the Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina for 15 years as administrator for the adult inpatient beds and has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Acquisition information:
The Margery Sved papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift 2015.
Processing information:

Processed and described by Valerie Szwaya, 2016.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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