Cover; Contents; Preface: Why a Book about Female Doctors?; Acknowledgments; Section One. Introductory Perspectives: Female Doctors in Canada; 1 The Feminization of Medicine: Issues and Implications; 2 "Unsex Me Here!" Gender as a Barrier to Female Practice: A Historical Introduction to Women Doctors in Canada; Professionalization in Canada
An Annotated Timeline; 3 Cultural Barriers within Medicine; 4 Current State of Women in Medicine: The Statistics; Section Two. Navigating the Reality of Becoming and Being a Female Physician in a Traditionally Male Profession: Social and Cultural Issues

5 Gendered Experience, Role Models and Mentorship, Leadership, and the Hidden Curriculum6 Female International Medical Graduates in Canada; Section Three. Career Experience: Examining Cultural Patterns within the Medical Community and Health Care System; 7 Career Trajectory of Women in Medicine: Taming the Winds That Blow Us; 8 Quality of Life/Life-Work Balance; Section Four. Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Medicine; 9 Women Physicians as Ethical Decision Makers; 10 Women and New Forms of Medicine; 11 Patients, Women Family Doctors, and Patient-Centred Care

Section Five. Female Doctors in Canada: Futures12 Female Doctors in Canada: The Way Forward; Contributors