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In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians » Read Now
by Regina Markell Morantz, Cynthia Stodola Pomerleau, Carol Hansen Fenichel. 292 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...two-year Oral History Project on Women in Medicine which was initiated in September...and Special Collections on Women in Medicine at the Medical College of...
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The Practice of Uncertainty: Voices of Physicians and Patients in Medical Malpractice Claims (Chap. 7 "Gender and Telling the Story") » Read Now
by Stephen L. Fielding. 234 pgs.

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Incorporating in-depth interviews, statistical data, and prior studies, Fielding illustrates how modern medicine is a victim of its own success. The historical record since the early 19th century shows that the rate of malpractice claims has increased as medicine developed new and more complex...
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Incorporating in-depth interviews, statistical data, and prior studies, Fielding illustrates how modern medicine is a victim of its own success. The historical record since the early 19th century shows that the rate of malpractice claims has increased as medicine developed new and more complex procedures. Fielding integrates macro- and micro-levels of analysis to explain how scientific medicine is inherently prone to adverse outcomes no matter how competent medical provisions are and how patients often feel their personal experiences and views are marginalized during the course of their medical care. This combination makes it more likely that patients will sue when something goes wrong.
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Inside Doctoring: Stages and Outcomes in the Professional Development of Physicians ("Observations on Women in Medicine" begins on p. 255) » Read Now
by Robert H. Coombs, D. Scott May, Gary W. Small. 304 pgs.

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...The paper used in this book complies with...Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine . Copyright 1981, The...Gets Pregnant," MEDICA: Women Practicing Medicine...Education: Seeking...
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Tokenism Reconsidered: Male Nurses and Female Physicians in a Hospital Setting, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Liliane Floge, Deborah M. Merrill. 23 pgs.

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...Freidson, Eliot. 1970 . Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge...Janet E. a: 1983 . Sex Differences in Tokens Career Attainment . Paper...
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Beyond Flexner: Medical Education in the Twentieth Century (Chap. 4 "Women in Medicine since Flexner") » Read Now
by Barbara Barzansky, Norman Gevitz. 246 pgs.

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This book provides a comprehensive review of medical education in the 20th century. It takes the themes articulated in the Flexner Report of 1910 and traces their development. Those themes, many of which have not been discussed in other books, include the basic sciences, the clinical curriculum...
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This book provides a comprehensive review of medical education in the 20th century. It takes the themes articulated in the Flexner Report of 1910 and traces their development. Those themes, many of which have not been discussed in other books, include the basic sciences, the clinical curriculum, women in medicine, black medical education, and sectarian medical education. Also covered are the evolution of the health care delivery system, trends in financing medical education, the use of outpatient settings for clinical education, the current status of the medical curriculum and needed changes, and health manpower needs. The final chapter discusses the current proposals for changes and how they relate to the problems and reforms of the Flexner era.
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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace and Academia: Psychiatric Issues » Read Now
by Diane K. Shrier. 278 pgs.

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"Shrier and her co-authors have written a landmark text that is enormously informative -- a clear, powerful exposition of the clinical, legal, and organizational aspects of sexual harassment in the workplace. It should be required reading for mental health professionals, lawyers, judges...
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"Shrier and her co-authors have written a landmark text that is enormously informative -- a clear, powerful exposition of the clinical, legal, and organizational aspects of sexual harassment in the workplace. It should be required reading for mental health professionals, lawyers, judges, legislators, academic leaders, and managers in corporate, governmental, and military organizations". Richard S. Epstein, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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Gender and Women's Employment in the Male-Dominated Profession of Dentistry: 1867-1917, in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology » Read Now
by Tracey L. Adams. 22 pgs.

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...substantially. Women in dentistry, like women in medicine, were not typically treated...hostility of the kind reported by women in medicine. The fact that women in...
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Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn » Read Now
by Regina Morantz-Sanchez. 292 pgs.

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In the spring of 1889, a burgeoning Brooklyn newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones. The ensuing avalanche of public outrage gave rise to two...
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In the spring of 1889, a burgeoning Brooklyn newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones. The ensuing avalanche of public outrage gave rise to two trials--one for manslaughter and one for libel--that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. "Conduct Unbecoming a Woman" is as mesmerizing as an intricately crafted suspense novel. Jars of specimens and surgical mannequins became common spectacles in the courtroom, and the roughly 300 witnesses that testified represented a fascinating social cross-section of the city's inhabitants, from humble immigrant craftsmen and seamstresses to some of New York and Brooklyn's most prestigious citizens and physicians. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon-Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America. It unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecological surgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. Indeed, the courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one "unruly" woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of 19th-century women. Clearly a extraordinary event in 1892, the cases disappeared from the historical record only a few years later. "Conduct Unbecoming a Woman" brilliantly reconstructs both the Dixon-Jones trials and the historic panorama that was 1890s Brooklyn.
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BLS and Alice Hamilton: Pioneers in Industrial Health, in Monthly Labor Review » Read Now
by William T. Moye. 4 pgs.

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A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy » Read Now
by Anne Taylor Kirschmann. 231 pgs.

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Homeopathy, as a medical system, presented a significant institutional and economic challenge to conventional medicine in the nineteenth century. Although contemporary critics portrayed homeopathic physicians as part of a sect whose treatment of disease was beyond the pale of acceptable medical...
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Homeopathy, as a medical system, presented a significant institutional and economic challenge to conventional medicine in the nineteenth century. Although contemporary critics portrayed homeopathic physicians as part of a sect whose treatment of disease was beyond the pale of acceptable medical practice, homeopathy was in many ways similar to established medicine. Anne Taylor Kirschmann explores the strategic choices and consequences for women practitioners. Not only were female homeopaths respected within their communities, they also enjoyed considerable professional advantages not available to women within regular medicine. A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy offers a new interpretation of women's roles in modern medicine. Kirschmann strengthens and clarifies the history of homeopathic women physicians and creates a framework of comparison to "regular, " or orthodox, physicians. Women medical practitioners chose homeopathy in dramatic numbers from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, although the reasons for this preference varied over time. Linked to social reform movements in the nineteenth century, anti-modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth, and countercultural ideals of the 1960s and 1970s, women's advocacy of homeopathy has been intertwined with broad social and cultural issues in American society.
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Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 » Read Now
by Sandra Lee Barney. 222 pgs.

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In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen...
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In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen, ladies' auxiliaries, and other female constituencies in bringing modern medicine to the mountains, she fills a significant gap in gender and regional history.
Barney explores both the differences that divided women in the reform effort and the common ground that connected them to one another and to the male physicians who profited from their voluntary activity. Held together at first by a shared goal of improving the public welfare, the coalition between women volunteers and medical professionals began to fracture when the reform agendas of women's groups challenged physicians' sovereignty over the form of health care delivery. By examining the professionalization of male medical practitioners, the gendered nature of the campaign to promote their authority, and their displacement of community healers, especially female midwives, Barney uncovers some of the tensions that evolved within Appalachian society as the region was fundamentally reshaped during the era of industrial development.
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The Corporeal and Ocular Veil: Dr. Matilda A. Evans (1872-1935) and the Complexity of Southern History, in Journal of Southern History » Read Now
by Darlene Clark Hine. 32 pgs.

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