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'''Caroline Augusta Chandler''' (1906–1979<ref>{{cite book |last1=Commrie |first1=Anne |title=Something about the Author, Volumes 24-26 |date=1981 |publisher=Gale |isbn=9780810300873 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmwYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Caroline+A+Chandler%22 |access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>) was an American [[Pediatrics|pediatrician]] and child mental health specialist. Her efforts to recruit more young women into the field of medicine included writing books for young girls about the profession.

==Education==
Chandler was born in [[Ford City, Pennsylvania]],<ref name="WaPoObit">{{cite news |title=Dr. Caroline Chandler Dies, Mental Health Expert, Author |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/12/21/dr-caroline-chandler-dies-mental-health-expert-author/7d47c213-370f-4ee0-a419-3b4d7b5175cf/ |access-date=8 February 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=21 December 1979}}</ref><ref name="BaltimoreObit"/> in 1906. She attended Mount Aloysius Academy in [[Cresson, Pennsylvania]],<ref name="Executive">{{cite news |title=U.S. Health Executive Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/147213118/?terms=%22Dr%2BCaroline%2BChandler%22 |access-date=13 February 2019 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=20 December 1979 |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |page=C16}}</ref><ref name="Talbot">{{cite book |last1=Talbot |first1=Donald G. |title=Vision and Narrative: How Two Religious Sisters of Mercy Initiated and Managed Organizational Change |date=2010 |publisher=Indiana University of Pennsylvania D.Ed. thesis |pages=7, 216 |url=https://knowledge.library.iup.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1186&context=etd |access-date=9 February 2019}}</ref> followed by [[Barnard College]],<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name="Executive"/><ref name="B&PW"/> then [[Yale Medical School]]<ref name="Executive"/><ref name="B&PW"/> where she won awards in medical research and [[pediatrics]], graduating as MD cum laude<ref name="B&PW"/> at Yale in 1933.<ref name="BaltimoreObit"/> She continued research at [[Harvard Medical School]]<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name="BaltimoreObit"/><ref name="Executive"/> on the [[Haemophilus influenzae|influenza bacillus]] responsible for some cases of meningitis,<ref name="B&PW">{{cite news |title=These Students Aided In Courses By B. & P. W. Funds |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/202229664/?terms=%22Dr%2BCaroline%2BChandler%22 |access-date=9 February 2019 |work=Clarion-Ledger |date=14 March 1937 |location=Jackson, Mississippi |page=9}}</ref> and at [[Johns Hopkins School of Medicine]],<ref name="BaltimoreObit"/><ref name="Executive"/><ref name="Murray">{{cite news |last1=Murray |first1=Flora |title=Books Leap From Her Test Tubes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/374103989/?terms=%22Susie%2BStuart%22 |work=The Baltimore Sun Sunday Magazine |date=26 December 1943 |location=Baltimore, Maryland |page=2}}</ref> on childhood [[rheumatic fever]] and [[hypertension]],<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name="Nemours">{{cite news |title=Nemours Gives 9 Fellowships For Research |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/161430407/?terms=%22Dr%2BCaroline%2BChandler%22 |access-date=9 February 2019 |work=The News Journal |date=11 April 1939 |location=Wilmington, Delaware |page=6}}</ref><ref>Chandler, Caroline A., Reginald S. Lourie and Anne DeHuff Peters. ''Early Child Care: The New Perspectives.'' Edited by Laura J. Dittman. New York: Atherton Press, Inc., 1968.</ref> and the use of [[sulfanilamide]] in preventing recurring attacks of rheumatic fever.<ref name="Murray"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stafford |first1=Jane |title=Your Health |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/148053620/?terms=%22Dr%2BCaroline%2BChandler%22 |access-date=17 February 2019 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=8 February 1943 |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |page=25}}</ref>

==Career==
During [[World War II]], Chandler left the laboratory to carry out a special project for the Children's Bureau in Washington, D.C.<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name="BaltimoreObit"/><ref name="Murray"/> She was commissioned Surgeon in the [[United States Public Health Service]],<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name="BaltimoreObit"/><ref name="Executive"/> and certified as a specialist by the [[American Board of Pediatrics]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=News and Comment |journal=Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine |date=March 1944 |volume=67 |issue=3 |page=241 |issn=1538-3628 |doi=10.1001/archpedi.1944.02020030076010}}</ref> After the war, she returned to Johns Hopkins as full-time Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Her research included the use of antibiotics,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=PODOLSKY |first1=SCOTT H. |title=Antibiotics and the Social History of the Controlled Clinical Trial, 1950–1970 |journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences |date=July 2010 |volume=65 |issue=3 |page=342 |doi=10.1093/jhmas/jrq003 |jstor=24631939 |pmid=20215414 |s2cid=32676067 }}</ref> including their effects ''in vitro''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chandler |first1=Caroline A. |last2=Janeway |first2=Charles A. |title=Observations on the Mode of Action of Sulfanilamide in vitro |journal=Experimental Biology and Medicine |date=February 1939 |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=179–184 |issn=1535-3699|doi=10.3181/00379727-40-10349 |s2cid=86658828 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bliss |first1=Eleanor A. |last2=Chandler |first2=Caroline A. |title=In vitroStudies of Aureomycin, a New Antibiotic Agent |journal=Experimental Biology and Medicine |date=December 1948 |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=467–472 |issn=1535-3699|doi=10.3181/00379727-69-16758 |pmid=18106660 |s2cid=306884 }}</ref>

However, as her interests in community groups and agencies grew, she had to limit her work to part-time. After serving three years as medical director of the Family and Children's Society,<ref name="BaltimoreObit" /> she accepted an assignment with the [[Maryland]] State Department of Health as a director of the Office of Mental Health and Child Health.<ref name="WaPoObit" /><ref name="BaltimoreObit" /> She resigned from that position because her proposals were being completely blocked or indefinitely delayed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Health Aide Quits Post – Mental Program Director Criticizes Superiors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/377554513/?terms=%22Dr%2BCaroline%2BChandler%22 |access-date=17 February 2019 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=3 February 1961 |page=8}}</ref> In 1961, Chandler joined the staff at the [[National Institute of Mental Health|National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)]]<ref name="WaPoObit" /> as chief of Demonstrations Section<ref name="Executive" /> of the Communities Services Branch. She headed the Child Mental Health Section of the Community Research and Services Branch of the NIMH,<ref name="BaltimoreObit" /><ref name="Executive" /> and, in 1966, was a member of the [[Department of Health, Education and Welfare|US Department of Health, Education and Welfare]] Task Force on Early Childhood Development.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Costello |first1=Joan |last2=Binstock |first2=Eleanor |title=Review and Summary of a National Survey of the Parent-Child Center Program |date=August 1970 |publisher=Office of Child Development (DREW), Washington, D.C |page=1 |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED048941.pdf |access-date=9 February 2019}}</ref> During all of these assignments, she remained an assistant professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine, and instructor of mental hygiene, at Johns Hopkins.<ref name="WaPoObit" /><ref name="BaltimoreObit" /><ref>Chandler, Caroline A., Reginald S. Lourie and Anne DeHuff Peters. ''Early Child Care: The New Perspectives.'' Edited by Laura J. Dittman. New York: Atherton Press, Inc., 1968</ref><br>

After writing articles about pediatrics, Chandler was approached by the children's editor of a publishing house to write about a woman doctor, for a series of career books for teenage girls.<ref name="Murray" /> Chandler wrote several books,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hoehn |first1=Matthew |title=Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches, 1930–1947, Volume 1 |date=1948 |publisher=St. Mary's Abbey |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-IJmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Caroline+Augusta+Chandler%22 |access-date=17 February 2019}}</ref> both fictional and factual, in an effort to recruit more young women into the field of medicine. The characters in her fictional books mirrored Chandler's own life in many respects, although she never married.<ref name="Murray" />

== Personal life ==
Chandler lived in [[Bethesda, Maryland]].<ref name="Executive"/> She died at the [[Washington Hospital Center]], Washington, D.C., on 18 December 1979.<ref name="BaltimoreObit">{{cite news |title=Dr. Chandler, government health official |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/377480991/?terms=%22Dr%2BCaroline%2BChandler%22 |access-date=13 February 2019 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=28 December 1979 |location=Baltimore, Maryland |page=13}}</ref><ref name="Executive"/>

==Books==
*''Susie Stuart, M.D., : a Story of a Young Doctor'' 1941<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name="Murray"/>
*''Susie Stuart, Home Front Doctor'' 1943<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref name="Murray"/>
*''Dr. Kay Winthrop, Intern'' 1947
*''Famous Men of Medicine'' 1950<ref name="Executive"/>
*''Famous Modern Men of Medicine'' 1965<ref name="WaPoObit"/><ref>Reviews of ''Famous Modern Men of Medicine'':
*{{Cite journal |last1=Sargeant |first1=Hilary |date=May 1966|title=Famous Modern Men of Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bs0aAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Caroline+A+Chandler%22 |journal=You're the Critic|publisher=Enoch Pratt Free Library |access-date=10 February 2019 }}
*{{cite news |last1=J.G. |title=Youth Wants To Pan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/372125402/?terms=%22Dr%2BCaroline%2BChandler%22 |access-date=10 February 2019 |work=The Evening Sun |date=18 May 1966 |location=Baltimore, Maryland |page=C1 }}</ref>
*''Nursing as a Career'' 1970<ref name="WaPoObit"/>
*''Early Child Care: The New Perspectives'' 1968<ref>Reviews of ''Early Child Care'':
*{{Cite journal |last1= B.H.F. |date=January 1969|title=Reviewed Work: Early Child Care by Caroline A. Chandler, Reginald S. Lourie, Anna De Huff Peters, Laura L. Dittmann|journal=Young Children|volume=24 |issue=3 |page=180 |jstor= 42658480}}
*{{Cite journal |last1=Ross |first1=Ralph A. |date=July 1969 |title=EARLY Child Care (Book) |journal=Pediatrics |volume=44 |issue=1 |page=153 |doi=10.1542/peds.44.1.153 |s2cid=70368189 |issn=0031-4005 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

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