Restoring the balance : women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995 / Ellen S. More.
1999
R692 .M645 1999 (Mapit)
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Restoring the balance : women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995 / Ellen S. More.
Author
More, Ellen Singer, 1946-
ISBN
9780674005679 (pbk.)
0674005678 (pbk.)
9780674766617
067476661X
0674005678 (pbk.)
9780674766617
067476661X
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Language
English
Description
xi, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
R692 .M645 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.69/52/0820973
Summary
"Drawing on rich archival sources and her own extensive interviews with women physicians, Ellen More shows how the ideal of balance informed and influenced the practice of healing for women doctors in America over the past 150 years. She argues that the history of women practitioners throughout the twentieth century fulfills the expectations constructed within the Victorian culture of professionalism. Restoring the Balance demonstrates that women doctors - collectively and individually - sought to reconcile the interests and culture of women with the claims of disinterestedness, scientific objectivity, and specialization of modern medical professionalism.
That goal, More writes, reaffirmed by each generation, lies at the heart of her central question: what does it mean to be a woman physician?"
That goal, More writes, reaffirmed by each generation, lies at the heart of her central question: what does it mean to be a woman physician?"
Note
That goal, More writes, reaffirmed by each generation, lies at the heart of her central question: what does it mean to be a woman physician?"
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-332) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: restoring the balance?
The professionalism of Sarah Dolley, M.D.
Gendered practices: late Victorian medicine in the woman's sphere
Maternalist medicine: women physicians in the Progressive Era
Redefining the margins: women physicians and American hospitals, 1900-1939
Getting organized: the Medical Women's National Association and World War I
New directions: the eclipse of maternalist medicine
Resisting the "Feminine Mystique," 1938-1968
Medicine and the new women's movement
Conclusion: reconciling equality an difference.
The professionalism of Sarah Dolley, M.D.
Gendered practices: late Victorian medicine in the woman's sphere
Maternalist medicine: women physicians in the Progressive Era
Redefining the margins: women physicians and American hospitals, 1900-1939
Getting organized: the Medical Women's National Association and World War I
New directions: the eclipse of maternalist medicine
Resisting the "Feminine Mystique," 1938-1968
Medicine and the new women's movement
Conclusion: reconciling equality an difference.