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Restoring the Balance : Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995
Restoring the Balance Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine 18501995 Author:Ellen S. More Drawing on rich archival sources and her own extensive interviews with women physicians, Ellen S. More shows how the Victorian ideal of balance influenced the practice of healing for women doctors in America over the past 150 years. She argues that the history of women practitioners throughout the twentieth century fulfills the expectations cons... more »tructed within the Victorian culture of professionalism. Restoring the Balance demonstrates that women doctors—collectively and individually—sought to balance the distinctive interests and culture of women against the claims of disinterestedness, scientific objectivity, and specialization of modern medical professionalism. "A number of books about women physicians are available, but most focus on the lives of women doctors during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More's book covers these eras, but its real strength lies in its examination of the obstacles women physicians faced in the mid- to late-twentieth century … Perhaps most interesting is her analysis of how these women reconciled the conflicts between traditional values and career goals as they began to gain some level of prestige during the baby boom era." —Tina Neville, Library Journal« less