Women physicians and the cultures of medicine
Subtitle: gender, health, and power
By: edited by Ellen More, Elizabeth Fee, Manon Parry.
Contributors: More, Ellen Singer, 1946-; Fee, Elizabeth.; Parry, Manon.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780801890376; 9780801890383
Subjects: Women physicians -- United States; Physicians, Women -- history -- United States; Physicians, Women -- psychology -- United States; Culture -- United States; Gender Identity -- United States; History, 19th Century -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; History, 21st Century -- United States; Power (Psychology) -- United States
Description: "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.
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the nineteenth-century politics of women's health research / Carla Bittel; title: Maternity and the female body in the writings of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, 1829-1902 / Arleen Marcia Tuchman; title: Female patient agency and the trial of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones in late nineteenth-century Brooklyn / Regina Morantz-Sanchez; title: A Chinese woman doctor in progressive era Chicago / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu; title: Professionalism vs. sexuality in the career of Dr. Mary Calderone, 1904-1998 / Ellen More; title: The legacy of masculine codes of honor and the admission of women to the medical profession in the nineteenth-century / Robert Nye; title: Women physicians and the twentieth-century women's health movement in the United States / Sandra Morgen; title: Narrative forms in our bodies, ourselves / Susan Wells; title: Feminists fight the culture of exclusion in medical education, 1970-1990 / Naomi Rogers; title: Women physicians and medical sects in nineteenth-century Chicago / Eve Fine; title: Ruth Parmelee, Esther Lovejoy, and the discourse of motherhood in Asia Minor and Greece in the early twentieth-century / Virginia Metaxas; title: Women physicians and a new agenda for college health, 1920-1970 / Heather Munro Prescott.