| Description |
xiv, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Original work presented at a symposium, Women Physicians, Women's Politics, Women's Health: Emerging Narratives, hosted by the National Library of Medicine in 2005. This symposium was organized in conjunction with the NLM exhibition, Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mary Putnam Jacobi and the nineteenth-century politics of women's health research / Carla Bittel -- Maternity and the female body in the writings of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, 1829-1902 / Arleen Marcia Tuchman -- Female patient agency and the 1892 trial of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones in late nineteenth-century Brooklyn / Regina Morantz-Sanchez -- A Chinese woman doctor in progressive era Chicago / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- Professionalism versus sexuality in the career of Dr. Mary Calderone, 1904-1998 / Ellen S. More -- The legacy of masculine codes of honor and the admission of women to the medical profession in the nineteenth century / Robert A. Nye -- Women physicians and the twentieth-century women's health movement in the United States / Sandra Morgen. |
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Narrative forms in Our bodies, ourselves / Susan Wells -- Feminists fight the culture of exclusion in medical education, 1970-1990 / Naomi Rogers -- Women physicians and medical sects in nineteenth-century Chicago / Eve Fine -- Ruth A. Parmelee, Esther P. Lovejoy, and the discourse of motherhood in Asia Minor and Greece in the early twentieth century / Virginia A. Metaxas -- Women physicians and a new agenda for college health, 1920-1970 / Heather Munro Prescott. |
| Summary |
"This volume examines the wide-ranging careers and diverse lives of American women physicians, shedding light on their struggles for equality, professional accomplishment, and personal happiness over the past 150 years."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Women physicians -- United States -- Congresses.
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Physicians, Women -- history -- United States. |
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Physicians, Women -- psychology -- United States. |
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Culture -- United States. |
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Gender Identity -- United States. |
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History, 19th Century -- United States. |
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History, 20th Century -- United States. |
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History, 21st Century -- United States. |
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Power (Psychology) -- United States. |
| Added Author |
More, Ellen Singer, 1946-
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Fee, Elizabeth.
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Parry, Manon.
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| ISBN |
9780801890383 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0801890381 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780801890376 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0801890373 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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