Regina Morantz-Sanchez ; with a new preface by the author
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2000
xxxvi, 464 p. ;
21 cm
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1985
Includes bibliographical references and index
Colonial beginnings: Public men and private women -- The middle-class woman finds health reform -- Bringing science into the home: Women enter the medical profession -- Separate but equal: Medical education for women in the nineteenth century -- Women and the profession: The docotor as a lady -- The women professional: The lady as a doctor -- Science, morality, and women doctors: Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell as representative types -- Doctors and patients: gender and medical treatment in nineteenth-century America -- Hopes unfulfilled: Women physicians and the social transformation of American medicine -- The emergence of social medicine: women's work in the profession -- Integration in name only -- Quo Vadis?