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