Women physicians and the cultures of medicine
- Publication/Creation:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Women physicians and the cultures of medicine / edited by Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, Manon Parry
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- More, Ellen Singer, 1946-
Fee, Elizabeth
Parry, Manon
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Women physicians--United States--Congresses
Physicians, Women--history
Physicians, Women--psychology
Culture
Gender Identity
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Power, Psychological
Gender identity
Gender
United States
Description/Summary
- Table of 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 --
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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xiv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- General 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.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990024851930302486
- ISBN:
- 9780801890376 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801890383 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801890373 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801890381 (pbk. : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 213379646
- Barcode:
- 010002470941
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