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

by Ellen S. More

Book Overview

From about 1850, American women physicians won gradual acceptance from male colleagues and the general public, primarily as caregivers to women and children. By 1920, they represented approximately five 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005678
• ISBN13: 9780674005679
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"