Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Colonial Beginnings and Separate Spheres""; ""Exploring Diversity""; ""Women and Professionalization""; ""Recent Scholarship""; ""New Directions for Future Scholarship""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""1. Colonial Beginnings: Public Men and Private Women""; ""Notes""; ""2. The Middle-Class Woman Finds Health Reform""; ""Notes""; ""3. Bringing Science into the Home: Women Enter the Medical Profession""; ""Notes""; ""4. Separate but Equal: Medical Education for Women in the Nineteenth Century""; ""Notes""
""5. Women and the Profession: The Doctor as a Lady""""Notes""; ""6. The Woman Professional: The Lady as a Doctor""; ""Notes""; ""7. Science, Morality, and Women Doctors: Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell as Representative Types""; ""Notes""; ""8. Doctors and Patients: Gender and Medical Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America""; ""Notes""; ""9. Hopes Unfulfilled: Women Physicians and the Social Transformation of American Medicine""; ""Notes""; ""10. The Emergence of Social Medicine: Women's Work in the Profession""; ""Notes""; ""11. Integration in Name Only""; ""Notes""