The woman in the surgeon's body
By: Joan Cassell.
Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780674004078
Subjects: Women surgeons; Surgery  --  Personal Narratives,; Physicians, Women  --  Personal Narratives
Genres:  Personal Narratives,;  Personal Narratives.
Description: Anthropologist Cassell observed 33 femal surgeons from across North America to determine if they differed from their male colleagues and how any differences affected patient care.
Table of contents: title: 1. "What's an anthropologist doing studying surgeons?"; title: 2. Bodies of difference; title: 3. Telling stories; title: 4. Women leading; title: 5. Forging the iron surgeon; title: 6. The gender of care; title: 7. A greedy institution; title: 8. A worst-case scenario; title: 9. Surgeons in this day and age.