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

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Author: Ellen S. More
Date: 18 Apr 2001
Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: English
Format: Paperback::352 pages
ISBN10: 0674005678
ISBN13: 9780674005679
Publication City/Country: Cambridge, Mass, United States
Dimension: 156x 235x 20.57mm::499g

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Ellen S. More, Ph. D., a historian of medicine, is Professor Emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Specializing in the history of the American medical profession, the history of women physicians, and the history of medical education, she was the founding head of the Office of Medical History and Archives Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. Ellen S. More (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Xi plus 340pp. $49.95). Readable and intelligent, Ellen More's Restoring the Balance is a valuable addition to the literature on the history of women in the American medical profession. 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. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 is not the sort of book I usually read. It is a history book, and I usually turn to fiction and memoir to better understand myself and my communities. But the title of this book stirred a desire to learn more about where we women in medicine have come from. Restoring the balance: women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850–1995. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 More, Ellen S Book condition: Fine Book Description Women Physicians: Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. This quote from the 1893 Women's Medical Journal is one of many from More's book as applicable today as more than 100 years ago. It begins a book that shows how far we have come, but often how we haven't made much progress at all. Buy Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 New Ed Ellen S. More (ISBN: 9780674005679) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Riska, E. (2001). Restoring the balance: Women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 26(6), 1406-1409. She is the author or editor of four books, including Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (Harvard), winner of the Rossiter Prize from the History of Science Society, Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (Johns Hopkins), co-edited with Elizabeth Fee and Manon Parry, winner of the Best Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Restoring the Balance:Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 Ellen S. More (2001, Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Free 2-day shipping. 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This revolution, however -like any other -has come with a price, as More details in her new book, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (Harvard University Press, 1999). That price, she says, is the struggle for women physicians, as with other "career women," to find a balance between their Joining together in women's medical societies brought female doctors strength of purpose as well as a forum for mutual support. Women began entering the profession in greater numbers just as medicine began evolving into specialties, finding it harder to balance the expected scientific professionalism with feminist ideals and those of social reform. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine 1850-1995. History of Rochester and Monroe County, New York: From the Earliest Historic Times to the Beginning of 1907, Volume 1 our History of Medicine reading room, that is. Thanks to the generosity of Richard I. Burton, M.D., we have two, exquisite display cabinets. Dr. Discover librarian-selected research resources on Women in Medicine from the Questia online library, including full-text online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 Ellen S. More Harvard Free 2-day shipping. Buy Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (Paperback) at Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 eBook: Ellen S. More: Kindle Store 1. Med Humanit Rev. 2001 Spring;15(1):74-6. A nuanced history of women in American medicine. [Review of: More, ES. Restoring the balance: women physicians and the profession of medicine, 1850-1995. Abstract. The position of women doctors has continued to draw the attention of feminists, women’s health advocates and policy-makers as the number of women doctors has increased markedly since the 1970s in most western societies. More, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 340 pp. $49.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. As the number of women in the medical profession has increased in the western countries, American academic women have become interested in the history and current prospects of Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (English Edition) eBook: Ellen S. More: Kindle Store 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 of women entering medical schools also halted, a trend not reversed until the 1960s. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profes-sion of Medicine, 1850–1995 is not the sort of book I usu-ally read. It is a history book, and I usually turn to fiction and memoir to better understand myself and my commu-nities. But the title of this book stirred a desire to learn more about where we women in medicine have come from. The

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