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This article is about the American physician and psychoanalyst born in 1877; for other notable women named Anna Richardson, see Anna Richardson (disambiguation).
Anna Mann Richardson
A middle-aged white woman with hair combed in a side-part bob, wearing a soft jacket with a contrasting collar, and glasses
Anna Mann Richardson, from a 1927 publication
Born
Anna Root Mann

April 6, 1877
Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedSeptember 10, 1953 (age 76)
Rochester, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Psychoanalyst, physician
Relatives Harriet Mann Miller (aunt)
Kristine Mann (sister)
Holbrook Mann MacNeille (nephew)

Anna Root Mann Richardson (April 6, 1877 – September 10, 1953) was an American psychoanalyst, physician, and health policy researcher.

Early life and education

Anna Mann was born in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Charles Holbrook Mann and Clausine Kristine Riborg Borchsenius Mann. Her mother was born in Denmark. Her father was a Swedenborgian minister and theologian. Her aunt, Harriet Mann Miller, was a noted ornithologist and writer. [1] [2]

Mann earned her medical degree from Boston University in 1901. She trained as a psychoanalyst in Switzerland with Carl Jung, as did her older sister, Kristine Mann. [3] Another sister, Clausine Mann MacNeille, was dean of women at Swarthmore College. [4] Her brothers were Horace B. Mann, a prominent architect, [5] and Charles Riborg Mann, [6] a physicist and government adviser. [7] Mathematician Holbrook Mann MacNeille was her nephew. [8]

Career

Mann practiced medicine during summers on Bailey Island, Maine. [9] In the 1920s, she was a health policy researcher associated with the Russell Sage Foundation from 1912 to 1916, and with the United Hospital Fund of New York in the 1920s. [10] She was campus physician at Smith College from 1927 [11] to 1940; in this role, she oversaw student health, [12] including mental health [13] and hygiene, and physical education courses. [14]

Publications

  • "Scope and Cost of Health Examinations" (1923, with Michael Marks Davis)
  • "Medical Responsibility for Country Care Examinations" (1924)
  • "Physical Examinations of 91 Brooklyn Physicians" (1924)
  • "How Often Should a Physician Examine His Clients?" (1925)
  • "Typical Cases and End Results of Periodic Health Examinations" (1926)
  • New Clinics for Old: A Study of Clinics Unattached to Hospitals in New York City (1927, with Michael Marks Davis) [15]
  • Health Services in Clinics (1927) [16]
  • "Health Service in Clinics and What it Includes" (1927) [17]
  • "The Place of the Unattached Clinic in Health Service" (1927) [18]

Personal life

Mann married engineer James Herbert Richardson. They had two sons, David and Charles. [19] Her husband died in 1936, and she died in 1953, at the age of 76. [20]

References

  1. ^ "Notes Woman is Dead Here; Olive Thorne Miller, Famous Ornithologist, Taken". The Los Angeles Times. 1918-12-26. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Mann, George S. (1884). Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Man of Scituate, Mass. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son. pp. 39–40.
  3. ^ "Dr. Kristine Mann Dies in New York". The Courier-News. 1945-11-13. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Weathervane". The Chatham Press. 1932-07-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Horace B. Mann, 69, Architect 40 Years; Had Served as Consultant in Industrial Housing for Shipping Board, Dies Here". The New York Times. 1937-07-16. ISSN  0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  6. ^ "Charles Riborg Mann Papers, circa 1908-1923". Finding Aids, UNC Wilson Special Collections Library. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  7. ^ "Dr. Anna M. Richardson". The New York Times. September 11, 1953. p. 21. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  8. ^ "Perry R. MacNeille, Architect, Dead; Member of New York Firm Is Stricken Suddenly--A Civic Leader in Summit, N.J." The New York Times. October 5, 1921. p. 21. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  9. ^ "Bailey Island". Casco Bay Breeze. 1914-08-27. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Deming, Dorothy. "Reviews and Book Notes" Public Health Nurse 20(May 1928): 261.
  11. ^ "Smith College Calls Anna Richardson". The New York Times. October 2, 1927. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  12. ^ "Smith Frosh Weigh What the Book Says". Transcript-Telegram. 1930-10-25. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Mentalities at College". The Day. 1930-03-04. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "The New Head of Hygiene and Physical Education". Smith Alumnae Quartelry: 56. November 1927.
  15. ^ Davis, Michael Marks; Richardson, Anna Mann (1927). New Clinics for Old: A Study of Clinics Unattached to Hospitals in New York City: the Passing of the Old "dispensary" and the Rise of Health Centers and of Other Clinics Rendering Health Services. Committee on dispensary development of the United hospital fund of New York.
  16. ^ United Hospital Fund of New York Committee on dispensary development (1925). Ten Monographs of the Committee on Dispensary Development of the United Hospital Fund of New York. Riverside Press.
  17. ^ Richardson, Anna Mann. "Health Service in Clinics and What it Includes" Modern Hospital 29(3)(September 1927): 142-144.
  18. ^ Davis, Michael M., and Anna Mann Richardson. "The Place of the Unattached Clinic in Health Service" The Physical Examinist 1(December 1927-January 1928): 201-212.
  19. ^ "Bailey Island". Casco Bay Breeze. 1914-07-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-04-06 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Dr. Anna M. Richardson Rite Slated Tomorrow". Democrat and Chronicle. 1953-09-11. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-04-05 – via Newspapers.com.
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