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Hardcover Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 Book

ISBN: 067476661X

ISBN13: 9780674766617

Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995

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From about 1850, women physicians won gradual acceptance from male colleagues and the general public, primarily as caregivers to women and children. By 1920, they represented approximately 5 percent of the profession. But within a decade, their niche in American medicine -women's medical schools and medical societies, dispensaries for women and children, women's hospitals, and settlement house clinics - had declined. The steady increase of women entering medical schools also halted, a trend not reversed until the 1960s. Yet, as women's traditional niche in the profession disappeared, a vanguard of women doctors slowly opened new paths to professional advancement and public health advocacy.

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