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.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xiv, 357 pages : illustrations; 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Culture
• Gender Identity
• United States
• History, 19th Century
• Physicians, Women > history
• Physicians, Women > psychology
• History, 20th Century
• Women physicians > United States
• History, 21st Century
• Power (Psychology)

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

Introduction. New Perspectives on Women Physicians and Medicine in the United States, 1849 to the Present / Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee and Manon Parry -- Pt. I. Performing Gender, Being a Woman Physician -- 1. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Women's Health Research / Carla Bittel -- 2. Maternity and the Female Body in the Writings of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, 1829-1902 / Arleen Marcia Tuchman -- 3. Female Patient Agency and the 1892 Trial of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones in Late Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn / Regina Morantz-Sanchez -- 4. A Chinese Woman Doctor in Progressive Era Chicago / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- 5. Professionalism versus Sexuality in the Career of Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, 1904-1998 / Ellen S. More -- Pt. II. Challenging the Culture of Professionalism -- 6. The Legacy of Masculine Codes of Honor and the Admission of Women to the Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century / Robert A. Nye -- 7. Women Physicians and the Twentieth-Century Women's Health Movement in the United States / Sandra Morgen -- 8. Narrative Forms in Our Bodies, Ourselves / Susan Wells -- 9. Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in Medical Education, 1970-1990 / Naomi Rogers -- Pt. III. Expanding the Boundaries -- 10. Women Physicians and Medical Sects in Nineteenth-Century Chicago / Eve Fine -- 11. Ruth A. Parmelee, Esther P. Lovejoy, and the Discourse of Motherhood in Asia Minor and Greece in the Early Twentieth Century / Virginia A. Metaxas -- 12. Women Physicians and a New Agenda for College Health, 1920-1970 / Heather Munro Prescott -- Conclusion: Opportunities and Obstacles for Women Physicians in the Twenty-First Century / Erica Frank, Elizabeth Fee, Manon Parry and Ellen S. More.

ISBN

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

LCCN

2008010932

OCLC

• ocn213379646
• 213379646
• SCSB-5439088

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries