Restoring the balance
Subtitle: women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995
By: Ellen S. More.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Women physicians -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women physicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women in medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women in medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Physicians, Women -- United States; Feminism -- history -- United States; History of Medicine, 20th Cent. -- United States; Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women physicians -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women physicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: 19th century.; 20th century.
Description: "Drawing on rich archival sources and her own extensive interviews with women physicians, Ellen More shows how the ideal of balance informed and influenced the practice of healing for women doctors in America over the past 150 years. She argues that the history of women practitioners throughout the twentieth century fulfills the expectations constructed within the Victorian culture of professionalism.

Restoring the Balance demonstrates that women doctors - collectively and individually - sought to reconcile the interests and culture of women with the claims of disinterestedness, scientific objectivity, and specialization of modern medical professionalism. That goal, More writes, reaffirmed by each generation, lies at the heart of her central question: what does it mean to be a woman physician?"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The professionalism of Sarah Dolley; title: Ch. 2. Gendered practices: late Victorian medicine in the woman's sphere; title: Ch. 3. Maternalist medicine: women physicians in the Progressive Era; title: Ch. 4. Redefining the margins: women physicians and American hospitals, 1900-1939; title: Ch. 5. Getting organized: the Medical Women's National Association and World War I; title: Ch. 6. New Directions: the eclipse of maternalist medicine; title: Ch. 7. Resisting the "Feminine Mystique," 1938-1968; title: Ch. 8. Medicine and the New Women's Movement.