Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine

Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, Manon Parry (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2009
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-9038-3 (ISBN)

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This volume examines the wide-ranging careers and diverse lives of American women physicians, shedding light on their struggles for equality, professional accomplishment, and personal happiness over the past 150 years. Leading scholars in the history of medicine chronicle the trials and triumphs of such extraordinary women as Marie Zakrzewska, one of the first female medical graduates in the United States and founder of the New England Hospital for Women and Children; Mary S. Calderone, the courageous and controversial medical director of Planned Parenthood in the mid-twentieth century; and Esther Pohl Lovejoy, who risked her life to bring medical aid and supplies to countries experiencing war, famine, and other catastrophes. Illuminating the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the book reveals them as dedicated professionals who grapple with obstacles and embrace challenges, even as they negotiate their own health, sexuality, and body images, the needs of their patients, and the rise of the women's health movement.

Ellen S. More is head of the Office of Medical History and Archives at the Lamar Soutter Library and professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is the author of the award-winning book Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. Elizabeth Fee is chief of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine and professor of history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Manon Parry is co-curator, with Ellen More, of the exhibition Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians, held at the National Library of Medicine 2004-2006.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Perspectives on Women Physicians and Medicine in the United States, 1849 to the Present
Part I: Performing Gender, Being a Woman Physician
Chapter 1. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Women's Health Research
Chapter 2. Maternity and the Female Body in the Writings of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, 1829–1902
Chapter 3. Female Patient Agency and the 1892 Trial of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones in Late Nineteenth-Century Brooklyn
Chapter 4. A Chinese Woman Doctor in Progressive Era Chicago
Chapter 5. Professionalism versus Sexuality in the Career of Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, 1904–1998
Part II: Challenging the Culture of Professionalism
Chapter 6. The Legacy of Masculine Codes of Honor and the Admission of Women to the Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 7. Women Physicians and the Twentieth-Century Women's Health Movement in the United States
Chapter 8. Narrative Forms in Our Bodies, Ourselves
Chapter 9. Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in Medical Education, 1970–1990
Part III: Expanding the Boundaries
Chapter 10. Women Physicians and Medical Sects in Nineteenth-Century Chicago
Chapter 11. Ruth A. Parmelee, Esther P. Lovejoy, and the Discourse of Motherhood in Asia Minor and Greece in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 12. Women Physicians and a New Agenda for College Health, 1920–1970
Conclusion: Opportunities and Obstacles for Women Physicians in the Twenty-First Century
List of Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.2.2009
Zusatzinfo	19 Halftones, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8018-9038-1 / 0801890381
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-9038-3 / 9780801890383
Zustand	Neuware