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American Women Physicians In 2000: A History In Progress, Ellen S. More, Marilyn Greer
American Women Physicians In 2000: A History In Progress, Ellen S. More, Marilyn Greer
Ellen S. More
This article surveys major trends in the history of women physicians in American medicine during the 20th century, noting especially factors that have elicited renewed and increasingly public attention during the past two decades. These include the challenges of achieving greater professional visibility while also balancing family and career, of sustaining women physicians' legacy of commitment to women's health and primary care medicine without reinforcing the traditional stereotype that these are the specialties "best suited" to women doctors, and of addressing the need for more ethnic and racial diversity in the medical profession. Other recent developments include the leveling off …
The Blackwell Medical Society And The Professionalization Of Women Physicians, Ellen S. More
The Blackwell Medical Society And The Professionalization Of Women Physicians, Ellen S. More
Ellen S. More
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'A Certain Restless Ambition': Women Physicians And World War I, Ellen S. More
'A Certain Restless Ambition': Women Physicians And World War I, Ellen S. More
Ellen S. More
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Changing The Face Of Medicine: One Historian's Experience As A Curator, Ellen S. More
Changing The Face Of Medicine: One Historian's Experience As A Curator, Ellen S. More
Ellen S. More
In the spring of 2001 during a meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Elizabeth Fee, Chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), invited me to become the Visiting Curator for a new exhibition they intended to present on the history of women physicians. It was the first full-scale exhibition ever devoted to that subject by the NLM. After more than two years’ preparation, the exhibition, “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” opened in April 2003 and continued on display at the NLM for more than two …
The American Medical Women's Association And The Role Of The Woman Physician, 1915-1990, Ellen S. More
The American Medical Women's Association And The Role Of The Woman Physician, 1915-1990, Ellen S. More
Ellen S. More
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