Female Physicians In American Literature
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Author |
: Margaret Jay Jessee |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 2021-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367228440 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367228446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Female Physicians in American Literature by : Margaret Jay Jessee
"Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. "Murderess," "hag," "She-Devil," "the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell"-these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensation fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy"--
Author |
: Regina Morantz-Sanchez |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 501 |
Release |
: 2005-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807876084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807876089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sympathy and Science by : Regina Morantz-Sanchez
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 |
: Janice P. Nimura |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2021-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393635553 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393635554 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by : Janice P. Nimura
New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."
Author |
: Margaret Jay Jessee |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2021-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000554441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000554449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Female Physicians in American Literature by : Margaret Jay Jessee
Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. "Murderess," "hag," "She-Devil," "the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell"—these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensational fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy.
Author |
: Susan Wells |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2001-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0299171744 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299171742 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of the Dead House by : Susan Wells
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.
Author |
: Suzanne Koven |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781324007142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1324007141 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letter to a Young Female Physician by : Suzanne Koven
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 |
: Ann K. Boulis |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2011-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801463501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801463505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Changing Face of Medicine by : Ann K. Boulis
The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physicians? Are women transforming the way medicine is practiced? To answer these questions, The Changing Face of Medicine draws on a wide array of sources, including interviews with women physicians and surveys of medical students and practitioners. The analysis is set in the twin contexts of a rapidly evolving medical system and profound shifts in gender roles in American society. Throughout the book, Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs critically examine common assumptions about women in medicine. For example, they find that women's entry into medicine has less to do with the decline in status of the profession and more to do with changes in women's roles in contemporary society. Women physicians' families are becoming more and more like those of other working women. Still, disparities in terms of specialty, practice ownership, academic rank, and leadership roles endure, and barriers to opportunity persist. Along the way, Boulis and Jacobs address a host of issues, among them dual-physician marriages, specialty choice, time spent with patients, altruism versus materialism, and how physicians combine work and family. Women's presence in American medicine will continue to grow beyond the 50 percent mark, but the authors question whether this change by itself will make American medicine more caring and more patient centered. The future direction of the profession will depend on whether women doctors will lead the effort to chart a new course for health care delivery in the United States.
Author |
: Carla Jean Bittel |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807832837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807832839 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-century America by : Carla Jean Bittel
In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and th
Author |
: Ellen S. More |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131764321 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine by : Ellen S. More
"This volume examines the wide-ranging careers and diverse lives of American women physicians, shedding light on their struggles for equality, professional accomplishment, and personal happiness over the past 150 years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Kimmery Martin |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2019-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399585890 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399585893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Queen of Hearts by : Kimmery Martin
A powerful debut novel, praised by The New York Times, Bustle, and Hypable, that pulses with humor and empathy as it explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness.... Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years. As chief resident, Nick Xenokostas was the center of Zadie's life--both professionally and personally--throughout a tragic chain of events during her third year of medical school that she has long since put behind her. Nick's unexpected reappearance at a time of new professional crisis shocks both women into a deeper look at the difficult choices they made at the beginning of their careers. As it becomes evident that Emma must have known more than she revealed about circumstances that nearly derailed both their lives, Zadie starts to question everything she thought she knew about her closest friend.