1st Edition
Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas American, Scandinavian and Russian Women Physicians
Edited By Elianne Riska
Copyright 2001
179 Pages
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Routledge
171 Pages
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Routledge
171 Pages
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Routledge
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The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in Europe and in the United States tend to confirm that women work mainly in niches of the health care system or medical specialties characterized by relatively low earnings or prestige. The segregation of medical work has... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Sociological Theories about Medical Work and Gender; 3: Women’s Entry into Medicine and Medical Practice in the United States; 4: Conditions Influencing Women Physicians’ Careers in Scandinavia; 5: Women Physicians in Russia and the Soviet Union; 6: Does Gender Matter?; 7: New Pioneers: Women in Pathology; 8: Women’s Challenge of Medicine; 9: Conclusions
Biography
Elianne Riska
