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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:067476661X
ISBN13:9780674766617
Release Date:February 2000
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:340 Pages
Weight:1.44 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"
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