Research Catalog

Title

Women physicians and the cultures of medicine / edited by Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, Manon Parry.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• More, Ellen Singer, 1946-
• Fee, Elizabeth.
• Parry, Manon.

Description

xiv, 357 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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

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 (note)

• 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 --
• 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.

Call Number

JFE 12-4510

ISBN

• 9780801890376 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801890373 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780801890383 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0801890381 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008010932

OCLC

213379646

Title

Women physicians and the cultures of medicine / edited by Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, Manon Parry.

Imprint

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

More, Ellen Singer, 1946-

Fee, Elizabeth.

Parry, Manon.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-4510