Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine

By Regina Morantz-Sanchez

Book Overview

The book deals primarily with the role of women physicians in American society, from the first 19th century figures to the present day. Morantz-Sanchez discusses the reasons for the lack of women doctors throughout the 20th Century until the 1960s and describes the changed conditions in recent years, when over a third of all medical school students are women. This is a broad social and institutional history of an important aspect of women's history in America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195049853
• ISBN13: 9780195049855
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"