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Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine
. Ed(S): More, Ellen S.; Fee, Elizabeth; Parry, Manon
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Description for Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine
Illuminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionals who grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges, even as they negotiate their own health, sexuality, and body images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of the women's health movement. Editor(s): More, Ellen S.; Fee, Elizabeth; Parry, Manon. Num Pages: 376 pages, 28, 9 black & white line drawings, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; MBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
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. Leading scholars in the history of medicine chronicle the trials and triumphs of such extraordinary women as Marie Zakrzewska, one of the first female medical graduates in the United States and founder of the New England Hospital for Women and Children; Mary S. Calderone, the courageous and controversial medical director of Planned Parenthood in the mid-twentieth century; and Esther Pohl Lovejoy, who risked her life to bring medical aid and supplies to countries experiencing war, famine, and other catastrophes. Illuminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionals who grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges, even as they negotiate their own health, sexuality, and body images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of the women's health movement.
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890376
SKU
V9780801890376
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99-12
About . Ed(S): More, Ellen S.; Fee, Elizabeth; Parry, Manon
Ellen S. More is head of the Office of Medical History and Archives at the Lamar Soutter Library and professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is the author of the award-winning book Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. Elizabeth Fee is chief of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine and professor of history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Manon Parry is co-curator, with Ellen More, of the exhibition Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians, held at the National Library of Medicine 2004-2006.
Reviews for Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine
This lively collection of essays will no doubt be enlightening to the current generation of medical students, historians, and scholars.
Barbara F. Atkinson Journal of Clinical Investigation Readers will find much to admire in this book. The individual essays, while diverse, are uniformly well written, well-researched, and impressively documented... Highly recommended. Choice The book would certainly be helpful for medical historians, of course, but also for any person-woman or man-interested in the past, present, and future role of women in medicine. Readers are rewarded with impressive scholarship and exhaustive, essay-specific bibliographies. JAMA Stellar edited collection... Read this book and assign it for class: it succeeds in leaving us informed,inspired, and amazed... It is provocative, deconstructs binaries, shows the personal tolls and struggles faced by these physicians and their use of science, nutrition, professional authority, and maternity (among others) as means to challenge male medical authority and culturally constructed gendered norms.
Susan E. Cayleff Bulletin of the History of Medicine This important volume delineates the state of the field in many aspects of the history of women physicians in the United States and points the way to the next steps in research.
Kimberly Jensen Social History of Medicine This collection of essays on the history of American women physicians from the nineteenth century to the present provides the latest, state-of-the-art scholarship on the subject... Invaluable.
Laura Ettinger American Historical Review A valuable addition to the history of women's struggle for fulfilling careers in medicine.
H. Hughes Evans Journal of the History of Medicine
Barbara F. Atkinson Journal of Clinical Investigation Readers will find much to admire in this book. The individual essays, while diverse, are uniformly well written, well-researched, and impressively documented... Highly recommended. Choice The book would certainly be helpful for medical historians, of course, but also for any person-woman or man-interested in the past, present, and future role of women in medicine. Readers are rewarded with impressive scholarship and exhaustive, essay-specific bibliographies. JAMA Stellar edited collection... Read this book and assign it for class: it succeeds in leaving us informed,inspired, and amazed... It is provocative, deconstructs binaries, shows the personal tolls and struggles faced by these physicians and their use of science, nutrition, professional authority, and maternity (among others) as means to challenge male medical authority and culturally constructed gendered norms.
Susan E. Cayleff Bulletin of the History of Medicine This important volume delineates the state of the field in many aspects of the history of women physicians in the United States and points the way to the next steps in research.
Kimberly Jensen Social History of Medicine This collection of essays on the history of American women physicians from the nineteenth century to the present provides the latest, state-of-the-art scholarship on the subject... Invaluable.
Laura Ettinger American Historical Review A valuable addition to the history of women's struggle for fulfilling careers in medicine.
H. Hughes Evans Journal of the History of Medicine