Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Restoring the Balance? The Professionalism of Sarah Dolley, M.D. Gendered Practices: Late Victorian Medicine in the Women's Sphere Maternalist Medicine: Women Physicians in the Progressive Era Redefining the Margins: Women Physicians and American Hospitals,1900-1939 Getting Organized:The Medical Women's National Association and World War I New Directions: The Eclipse of Maternalist Medicine Resisting the Feminine Mystique, 1938-1968 Medicine and the New Women's Movement Conclusion: Reconciling Equality and Difference Notes Index