Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine

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 AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Women Physicians and Medicine in the United States, 1849 to the PresentPart I: Performing Gender, Being a Woman PhysicianChapter 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, 1829–1902Chapter 3. Female Patient Agency and the 1892 Trial of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones in Late Nineteenth-Century BrooklynChapter 4. A Chinese Woman Doctor in Progressive Era ChicagoChapter 5. Professionalism versus Sexuality in the Career of Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, 1904–1998Part II: Challenging the Culture of ProfessionalismChapter 6. The Legacy of Masculine Codes of Honor and the Admission of Women to the Medical Profession in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 7. Women Physicians and the Twentieth-Century Women's Health Movement in the United StatesChapter 8. Narrative Forms in Our Bodies, OurselvesChapter 9. Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in Medical Education, 1970–1990Part III: Expanding the BoundariesChapter 10. Women Physicians and Medical Sects in Nineteenth-Century ChicagoChapter 11. Ruth A. Parmelee, Esther P. Lovejoy, and the Discourse of Motherhood in Asia Minor and Greece in the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 12. Women Physicians and a New Agenda for College Health, 1920–1970Conclusion: Opportunities and Obstacles for Women Physicians in the Twenty-First CenturyList of ContributorsIndex

This lively collection of essays will no doubt be enlightening to the current generation of medical students, historians, and scholars. -- Barbara F. Atkinson Journal of Clinical Investigation Readers will find much to admire in this book. The individual essays, while diverse, are uniformly well written, well-researched, and impressively documented... Highly recommended. Choice The book would certainly be helpful for medical historians, of course, but also for any person-woman or man-interested in the past, present, and future role of women in medicine. Readers are rewarded with impressive scholarship and exhaustive, essay-specific bibliographies. JAMA Stellar edited collection... Read this book and assign it for class: it succeeds in leaving us informed,inspired, and amazed... It is provocative, deconstructs binaries, shows the personal tolls and struggles faced by these physicians and their use of science, nutrition, professional authority, and maternity (among others) as means to challenge male medical authority and culturally constructed gendered norms. -- Susan E. Cayleff Bulletin of the History of Medicine This important volume delineates the state of the field in many aspects of the history of women physicians in the United States and points the way to the next steps in research. -- Kimberly Jensen Social History of Medicine This collection of essays on the history of American women physicians from the nineteenth century to the present provides the latest, state-of-the-art scholarship on the subject... Invaluable. -- Laura Ettinger American Historical Review A valuable addition to the history of women's struggle for fulfilling careers in medicine. -- H. Hughes Evans Journal of the History of Medicine