Send Us A Lady Physician

Author : Ruth J. Abram
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393302783
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Send Us a Lady Physician written by Ruth J. Abram and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irony of women's acceptance into the medical world, and the unfortunate decline in their status at the beginning of the twentieth-century, is illustrated in this volume through words and pictures. By focusing on the class of 1879 at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the authors of the various essays depict individual trials, frustrations, and victories of nineteenth-century women physicians; and we come to understand a vital aspect of our history and how it affects us all today.

Author : Edward C. Atwater
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465714
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War written by Edward C. Atwater and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.

Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466831790
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors. But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that women weren't smart enough to be doctors, or that they were too weak for such hard work. And she would not take no for an answer. Although she faced much opposition, she worked hard and finally—when she graduated from medical school and went on to have a brilliant career—proved her detractors wrong. This inspiring story of the first female doctor shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all the female doctors to come. Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? by Tanya Lee Stone is an NPR Best Book of 2013 This title has common core connections.

Author : Eliza Lo Chin
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Side of Doctoring written by Eliza Lo Chin and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of stories, poems, essays and quotations explores the duality of being both a woman and a physician.

Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women written by Elizabeth Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.

Author : Suzanne Koven
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1324007141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter to a Young Female Physician written by Suzanne Koven and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a “real” doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven’s “Letter to a Young Female Physician” has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine. Koven tells candid and illuminating stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her child and aging parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged, and sometimes collided; the sexism, pay inequity, and harassment that women in medicine encounter; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. As she traces the arc of her life, Koven finds inspiration in literature and faces the near-universal challenges of burnout, body image, and balancing work with marriage and parenthood. Shining with warmth, clarity, and wisdom, Letter to a Young Female Physician reveals a woman forging her authentic identity in a modern landscape that is as overwhelming and confusing as it is exhilarating in its possibilities. Koven offers an indelible account, by turns humorous and profound, from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher, and writer who sheds light on our desire to find meaning, and on a way to be our own imperfect selves in the world.

Author : Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876089
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sympathy and Science written by Regina Morantz-Sanchez and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in the nineteenth century to enter medical schools and found their own institutions and organizations; and follows female physicians into the twentieth century, exploring their efforts to sustain significant and rewarding professional lives without sacrificing the other privileges and opportunities of womanhood. In a new preface, the author surveys recent scholarship and comments on the changing world of women in medicine over the past two decades. Despite extraordinary advances, she concludes, women physicians continue to grapple with many of the issues that troubled their predecessors.

Author : Susan H. Brandt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298470
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Healers written by Susan H. Brandt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall developed an extensive healing practice, consulted medical texts, and conducted experiments based on personal observations. As British North America’s premier city of medicine and science, Philadelphia offered Paschall a nurturing environment enriched by diverse healing cultures and the Quaker values of gender equality and women’s education. She participated in transatlantic medical and scientific networks with her friend, Benjamin Franklin. Paschall was not unique, however. Women Healers recovers numerous women of European, African, and Native American descent who provided the bulk of health care in the greater Philadelphia area for centuries. Although the history of women practitioners often begins with the 1850 founding of Philadelphia’s Female Medical College, the first women’s medical school in the United States, these students merely continued the legacies of women like Paschall. Remarkably, though, the lives and work of early American female practitioners have gone largely unexplored. While some sources depict these women as amateurs whose influence declined, Susan Brandt documents women’s authoritative medical work that continued well into the nineteenth century. Spanning a century and a half, Women Healers traces the transmission of European women’s medical remedies to the Delaware Valley where they blended with African and Indigenous women’s practices, forming hybrid healing cultures. Drawing on extensive archival research, Brandt demonstrates that women healers were not inflexible traditional practitioners destined to fall victim to the onward march of Enlightenment science, capitalism, and medical professionalization. Instead, women of various classes and ethnicities found new sources of healing authority, engaged in the consumer medical marketplace, and resisted physicians’ attempts to marginalize them. Brandt reveals that women healers participated actively in medical and scientific knowledge production and the transition to market capitalism.

Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9781433900556
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Blackwell: America's First Female Doctor written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and accomplishments of the first American woman to attend medical school and become a doctor.

Author : Olivia Campbell
Publisher : Swift Press
ISBN 13 : 1800752474
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in White Coats written by Olivia Campbell and published by Swift Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the pioneering women who changed the medical landscape for us all For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionising the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman's place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women who, despite countless obstacles, earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same. Though very different in personality and circumstance, together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges - creating for the first time medical care for women by women. With gripping storytelling based on extensive research and access to archival documents, Women in White Coats tells the courageous history these women made by becoming doctors, detailing the boundaries they broke of gender and science to reshape how we receive medical care today.