Restoring the Balance : : Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995 / / Ellen S. More.
From about 1850, American women physicians won gradual acceptance from male colleagues and the general public, primarily as caregivers to women and children. By 1920, they represented approximately five percent of the profession. But within a decade, their niche in American medicine--women's me...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Restoring the Balance?
- 1 The Professionalism of Sarah Dolley, M.D.
- 2 Gendered Practices: Late Victorian Medicine in the Woman’s Sphere
- 3 Maternalist Medicine: Women Physicians in the Progressive Era
- 4 Redefining the Margins: Women Physicians and American Hospitals, 1900–1939
- 5 Getting Organized: The Medical Women’s National Association and World War I
- 6 New Directions: The Eclipse of Maternalist Medicine
- 7 Resisting the “Feminine Mystique,” 1938–1968
- 8 Medicine and the New Women’s Movement
- Conclusion: Reconciling Equality and Difference
- Notes
- Index