Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America

by Carolyn Skinner

Using books, articles, and speeches by nineteenth-century American women physicians as evidence, this book explores historical women's use of ethos, the persuasiveness of the communicator's character. Despite opposition to women in professional roles, women physicians successfully claimed and adapted the influential forms of communication available to the professional.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809333007
• ISBN13: 9780809333004
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"