Women physicians and professional ethos in nineteenth-century America / Carolyn Skinner.
Women physicians in nineteenth-century America faced a unique challenge in gaining acceptance to the medical field as it began its transformation into a professional institution. The profession had begun to increasingly insist on masculine traits as signs of competency. Not only were these traits in...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Summary: | Women physicians in nineteenth-century America faced a unique challenge in gaining acceptance to the medical field as it began its transformation into a professional institution. The profession had begun to increasingly insist on masculine traits as signs of competency. Not only were these traits inaccessible to women according to nineteenth-century gender ideology, but showing competence as a medical professional was not enough. Whether women could or should be physicians hinged mostly on maintaining their femininity while displaying the newly established standard traits of successful practit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781306370233 130637023X 9780809333011 0809333015 |
| Language: | English. |