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Sympathy and Science

Women Physicians in American Medicine

By: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

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Sympathy and Science

Women Physicians in American Medicine

By: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in the nineteenth century to enter medical schools and found their own institutions and organizations; and follows female physicians into the twentieth century, exploring their efforts to sustain significant and rewarding professional lives without sacrificing the other privileges and opportunities of womanhood. In a new preface, the author surveys recent scholarship and comments on the changing world of women in medicine over the past two decades. Despite extraordinary advances, she concludes, women physicians continue to grapple with many of the issues that troubled their predecessors.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876089

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9780807876084

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-century Brooklyn

By: Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez

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Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-century Brooklyn

By: Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez

The author presents the case of surgeon Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones, who in 1889 Boston was the subject in two court cases -- one for manslaughter and the other for libel -- which became a 19th century sensation.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195139283

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9780195139280

Sympathy and Science

Women Physicians in American Medicine

By: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

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Women Physicians in American Medicine

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Fallen Women, Problem Girls

Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945

By: Regina G. Kunzel

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Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945

By: Regina G. Kunzel

During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of women: evangelical reformers who regarded unmarried mothers as fallen sisters to be saved, a new generation of social workers who viewed them as problem girls to be treated, and unmarried mothers themselves. Drawing on previously unexamined case records from maternity homes, Regina Kunzel explores how women negotiated the crisis of single pregnancy and analyzes the different ways they understood and represented unmarried motherhood. Fallen Women, Problem Girls is a social and cultural history of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in the United States from 1890 to 1945. Kunzel analyzes how evangelical women drew on a long tradition of female benevolence to create maternity homes that would redeem and reclaim unmarried mothers. She shows how, by the 1910s, social workers struggling to achieve professional legitimacy tried to dissociate their own work from that earlier tradition, replacing the reform rhetoric of sisterhood with the scientific language of professionalism. By analyzing the important and unexplored transition from the conventions of nineteenth-century reform to the professional imperatives of twentieth-century social welfare, Kunzel offers a new interpretation of gender and professionalization. Kunzel places shifting constructions of out-of-wedlock pregnancy within a broad history of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and argues that the contests among evangelical women, social workers, and unmarried mothers distilled larger generational and cross-class conflicts among women in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Yale University Press

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0300065094

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9780300065091

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

By: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

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Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

By: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones. The ensuing avalanche of public outrage gave rise to two trials--one for manslaughter and one for libel--that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. This intricately crafted and mesmerizing piece of history reads like a suspense novel which skillfully examines masculine and feminine ideals in the late 19th century. Jars of specimens and surgical mannequins became common spectacles in the courtroom, and the roughly 300 witnesses that testified represented a fascinating social cross-section of the city's inhabitants, from humble immigrant craftsmen and seamstresses to some of New York and Brooklyn's most prestigious citizens and physicians. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon-Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America. It unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecological surgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. Indeed, the courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one "unruly" woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of 19th-century women. Clearly a extraordinary event in 1892, the cases disappeared from the historical record only a few years later. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman brilliantly reconstructs both the Dixon-Jones trials and the historic panorama that was 1890s Brooklyn.

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Oxford University Press

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0199729026

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Book's by Regina Morantz-Sanchez

Sympathy and Science

Sympathy and Science

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

Sympathy and Science

Sympathy and Science

Fallen Women, Problem Girls

Fallen Women, Problem Girls

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman

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