Female Doctors In Canada

Author : Earle H. Waugh,Shirley Schipper,Shelley Ross
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781487523220

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Female Doctors in Canada by Earle H. Waugh,Shirley Schipper,Shelley Ross Pdf

Female Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession. As the ratio of practicing physicians shifts from predominately male to predominately female, issues such as work hours, caregiving, and doctor-patient relationships will all be affected. Canada's medical education is based on a system that has always been designed by and for men; this is also true of our healthcare systems, influencing how women practice, what type of medicine they choose to practice, and how they wish to balance their personal lives with their work. With the intent to open a larger conversation, Female Doctors in Canada reconsiders medical education, health systems, and expectations, in light of the changing face of medicine. Highlighting the particular experience of women working in the medical profession, the editors trace the history of female practitioners, while also providing a perspective on the contemporary struggles women face as they navigate a system that was tailored to the male experience, and is yet to be modified.

Author : Carlotta Hacker
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0887805434

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The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker Pdf

As late as 1874 no women were licensed to practice medicine in Canada. Indeed, Canada's first female doctor, Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry, was a man. Or so thought her superiors in the British Army. In this fascinating and inspiring account of the courage, heroism, and dedication of Canada's pioneer women doctors, Carlotta Hacker traces the lives of a wide range of women who worked throughout the world, combining the struggle for women's rights with remarkable medical achievements. Serving in the Canadian West, as missionaries in China, Tibet, and India, or advancing knowledge as medical scholars, the doctors considered worked tirelessly to alleviate suffering in the world. The Indomitable Lady Doctors is a fascinating account of the struggle to open the Canadian medical profession to women, and of the remarkable women who fought this struggle.

Author : Maude E. Abbott
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780773575455

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Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease by Maude E. Abbott Pdf

This reprint includes a short history of Abbott's life and how she came to create the Atlas, including a discussion of the material she used for her 1934 London Exhibit, which served as the basis for the Atlas. The original text and illustrations are enhanced by color prints of fifty-five specimens in the Abbott Collection of the McGill Pathology Museum.

Author : Earle Waugh,Shirley Schipper,Shelley Ross
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487519773

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Female Doctors in Canada by Earle Waugh,Shirley Schipper,Shelley Ross Pdf

Female Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession. As the ratio of practicing physicians shifts from predominately male to predominately female, issues such as work hours, caregiving, and doctor-patient relationships will all be affected. Canada's medical education is based on a system that has always been designed by and for men; this is also true of our healthcare systems, influencing how women practice, what type of medicine they choose to practice, and how they wish to balance their personal lives with their work. With the intent to open a larger conversation, Female Doctors in Canada reconsiders medical education, health systems, and expectations, in light of the changing face of medicine. Highlighting the particular experience of women working in the medical profession, the editors trace the history of female practitioners, while also providing a perspective on the contemporary struggles women face as they navigate a system that was tailored to the male experience, and is yet to be modified.

Author : Olivia Campbell
Publisher : Swift Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800752474

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Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell Pdf

Meet the pioneering women who changed the medical landscape for us all For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionising the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman's place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women who, despite countless obstacles, earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same. Though very different in personality and circumstance, together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges - creating for the first time medical care for women by women. With gripping storytelling based on extensive research and access to archival documents, Women in White Coats tells the courageous history these women made by becoming doctors, detailing the boundaries they broke of gender and science to reshape how we receive medical care today.

Author : Wendy Moore
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541672734

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No Man's Land by Wendy Moore Pdf

The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war and the Spanish flu, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments. In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of global war and pandemic when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.

Author : Melissa Kravetz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442629646

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Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany by Melissa Kravetz Pdf

Examining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes. Melissa Kravetz explains how and why women occupied particular fields within the medical profession, how they presented themselves in their professional writing, and how they reconciled their medical perspectives with their views of the Weimar and later the Nazi state. Focusing primarily on those women who were members of the Bund Deutscher Ärztinnen (League of German Female Physicians or BDÄ), this study shows that female physicians used maternalist and, to a lesser extent, eugenic arguments to make a case for their presence in particular medical spaces. They emphasized gender difference to claim that they were better suited than male practitioners to care for women and children in a range of new medical spaces. During the Weimar Republic, they laid claim to marriage counselling centres, school health reform, and the movements against alcoholism, venereal disease, and prostitution. In the Nazi period, they emphasized their importance to the Bund Deutscher Mädels (League of German Girls), the Reichsmütterdienst (Reich Mothers' Service), and breast milk collection efforts. Women doctors also tried to instil middle-class values into their working-class patients while fashioning themselves as advocates for lower-class women.

Author : Hacker, Carlotta
Publisher : Goodread Biography
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0887801293

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The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Hacker, Carlotta Pdf

Meet a dozen fascinating women, pioneers in the medical world, adventurers who went west with the homesteaders, missionaries who went to Tibet, China and India, scholars the academic community had to recognise. The medical establishment in Canada didn't accept these women doctors easily, and their battles for admittance into this profession are revealing. Author Carlotta Hacker presents her biographical profiles in a lively, entertaining style.

Author : Suzanne Koven
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324007142

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Letter to a Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven Pdf

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a “real” doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven’s “Letter to a Young Female Physician” has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine. Koven tells candid and illuminating stories about her pregnancy during a grueling residency in the AIDS era; the illnesses of her child and aging parents during which her roles as a doctor, mother, and daughter converged, and sometimes collided; the sexism, pay inequity, and harassment that women in medicine encounter; and the twilight of her career during the COVID-19 pandemic. As she traces the arc of her life, Koven finds inspiration in literature and faces the near-universal challenges of burnout, body image, and balancing work with marriage and parenthood. Shining with warmth, clarity, and wisdom, Letter to a Young Female Physician reveals a woman forging her authentic identity in a modern landscape that is as overwhelming and confusing as it is exhilarating in its possibilities. Koven offers an indelible account, by turns humorous and profound, from a doctor, mother, wife, daughter, teacher, and writer who sheds light on our desire to find meaning, and on a way to be our own imperfect selves in the world.

Author : Malone, Mary T.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337057

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Four Women Doctors of the Church by Malone, Mary T. Pdf

This timely and engrossing work brings to life the trials and triumphs of four inspiring women, Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Therese of Lisieux, whose bravery and intellectual prowess opened the door for new discussions on the role of women in the Church.

Author : Janice P. Nimura
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393635553

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."

Author : Eileen Nason Cambon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124117511

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Uppity Women We are by Eileen Nason Cambon Pdf

Author : Wendy Mitchinson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0802068405

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The Nature of Their Bodies by Wendy Mitchinson Pdf

In documenting the changing nature of interventional medicine, Mitchinson considers the medical treatment of women within the context of what was available to physicians at the time.

Author : Marcia Bayne-Smith
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018249370

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Race, Gender and Health by Marcia Bayne-Smith Pdf

Exploring structural and cultural factors that affect women's health issues, the contributors provide a detailed examination of four different groups of women: African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander American, and Latinas.

Author : Stefanie Green
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982129460

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This Is Assisted Dying by Stefanie Green Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.