Sympathy & Science: Women Physicians in American MedicineUniv of North Carolina Press, 2000 - 464 pages When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profes |
Contents
Colonial Beginnings Public Men and Private Women | 6 |
The MiddleClass Woman Finds Health Reform | 26 |
Bringing Science into the Home Women Enter the Medical Profession | 45 |
Separate but Equal Medical Education for Women in the Nineteenth Century | 62 |
Women and the Profession The Doctor as a Lady | 88 |
The Woman Professional The Lady as a Doctor | 142 |
Science Morality and Women Doctors Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell as Representative Types | 182 |
Doctors and Patients Gender and Medical Treatment in NineteenthCentury America | 201 |
The Emergence of Social Medicine Womens Work in the Profession | 264 |
Integration in Name Only | 310 |
Quo Vadis? | 349 |
Notes on Methodology | 361 |
Bibliography | 367 |
Notes | 377 |
Index | 447 |
Hopes Unfulfilled Women Physicians and the Social Transformation of American Medicine | 230 |
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