Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Women Physicians And Professional Ethos In Nineteenth Century America
Download Women Physicians And Professional Ethos In Nineteenth Century America full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Women Physicians And Professional Ethos In Nineteenth Century America ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America by : Carolyn Skinner
Download or read book Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America written by Carolyn Skinner and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women physicians in nineteenth-century America faced a unique challenge in gaining acceptance to the medical field as it began its transformation into a professional institution. The profession had begun to increasingly insist on masculine traits as signs of competency. Not only were these traits inaccessible to women according to nineteenth-century gender ideology, but showing competence as a medical professional was not enough. Whether women could or should be physicians hinged mostly on maintaining their femininity while displaying the newly established standard traits of successful practitioners of medicine. Women Physicians and Professional Ethos provides a unique example of how women influenced both popular and medical discourse. This volume is especially notable because it considers the work of African American and American Indian women professionals. Drawing on a range of books, articles, and speeches, Carolyn Skinner analyzes the rhetorical practices of nineteenth-century American women physicians. She redefines ethos in a way that reflects the persuasive efforts of women who claimed the authority and expertise of the physician with great difficulty. Descriptions of ethos have traditionally been based on masculine communication and behavior, leaving women’s rhetorical situations largely unaccounted for. Skinner’s feminist model considers the constraints imposed by material resources and social position, the reciprocity between speaker and audience, the effect of one rhetor’s choices on the options available to others, the connections between ethos and genre, the potential for ethos to be developed and used collectively by similarly situated people, and the role ethos plays in promoting social change. Extending recent theorizations of ethos as a spatial, ecological, and potentially communal concept, Skinneridentifies nineteenth-century women physicians’ rhetorical strategies and outlines a feminist model of ethos that gives readers a more nuanced understanding of how this mode of persuasion operates for all speakers and writers.
Book Synopsis Out of the Dead House by : Susan Wells
Download or read book Out of the Dead House written by Susan Wells and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.
Book Synopsis Send Us a Lady Physician by : Ruth J. Abram
Download or read book Send Us a Lady Physician written by Ruth J. Abram and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irony of women's acceptance into the medical world, and the unfortunate decline in their status at the beginning of the twentieth-century, is illustrated in this volume through words and pictures. By focusing on the class of 1879 at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the authors of the various essays depict individual trials, frustrations, and victories of nineteenth-century women physicians; and we come to understand a vital aspect of our history and how it affects us all today.
Book Synopsis Delicate Authority by : Carolyn Skinner
Download or read book Delicate Authority written by Carolyn Skinner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the ethical appeals used by nineteenth-century American women physicians in their rhetoric composed for public audiences. These texts represent a body of public, scientific, rhetorical activity by women, and so my analysis of them contributes to the identification and study of historic women's rhetorical work. Based in archival research methods, this project not only examines the texts written by women physicians, but also the texts surrounding them: book reviews, newspaper editorials, advertisements, and arguments for and against women physicians. Analyzing these texts in concert through the lens of ethos reveals not only the context in which women physicians engaged in rhetorical activity, but also the collective nature of women physicians' ethical appeals.
Book Synopsis Sympathy and Science by : Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Download or read book Sympathy and Science written by Regina Morantz-Sanchez and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis (Re)writing Professional Ethos by : Kristin E. Kondrlik
Download or read book (Re)writing Professional Ethos written by Kristin E. Kondrlik and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues that, by writing across the print culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female physicians negotiated their ethos by representing themselves in ways more commensurate with their own experiences and contrary to existing representations. It draws on both literary and rhetorical traditions to analyze how writers addressed the incommensurability of print representations of women with the professional roles opened to them in the late nineteenth century - specifically, the medical profession. Though they were legally recognized as physicians in 1876, British women lacked the professional authority granted their male colleagues. Across the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, popular and professional discourses such as novels, short stories and professional journals often represented women as incompetent, weak, and unfit for professional work. As they undermined women's professional ethos - the public's and the profession's perceptions of their goodwill, good sense and good character, these representations damaged both public reception of female physicians and their ability to act as professionals. In chapters on war correspondence, women's medical magazines, serialized fiction, and New Woman novels, this dissertation traces the interventions of women physicians' supporters into conversations about women in the medical profession between 1876 and 1914. These alternative representations aided in establishing female physicians' ethos by positing new ways of thinking not only about medical women but also about the relationships between women, the professions and turn-of-the-century society.
Book Synopsis Restoring the Balance by : Ellen S. More
Download or read book Restoring the Balance written by Ellen S. More and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From about 1850, American women physicians won gradual acceptance from male colleagues and the general public, primarily as caregivers to women and children. By 1920, they represented approximately five percent of the profession. But within a decade, their niche in American medicine--women's medical schools and medical societies, dispensaries for women and children, women's hospitals, and settlement house clinics--had declined. The steady increase of women entering medical schools also halted, a trend not reversed until the 1960s. Yet, as women's traditional niche in the profession disappeared, a vanguard of women doctors slowly opened new paths to professional advancement and public health advocacy. Drawing on rich archival sources and her own extensive interviews with women physicians, Ellen More shows how the Victorian ideal of balance influenced the practice of healing for women doctors in America over the past 150 years. She argues that the history of women practitioners throughout the twentieth century fulfills the expectations constructed within the Victorian culture of professionalism. Restoring the Balance demonstrates that women doctors--collectively and individually--sought to balance the distinctive interests and culture of women against the claims of disinterestedness, scientific objectivity, and specialization of modern medical professionalism. That goal, More writes, reaffirmed by each generation, lies at the heart of her central question: what does it mean to be a woman physician?
Book Synopsis Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine by : Ellen S. More
Download or read book Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine written by Ellen S. More and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume examines the wide-ranging careers and diverse lives of American women physicians, shedding light on their struggles for equality, professional accomplishment, and personal happiness over the past 150 years."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Women Physicians Nineteenth- Century America by : Sharon M. Harris
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Women Physicians Nineteenth- Century America written by Sharon M. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 7000 entries, this book captures the diversity of the individual women who sought to become physicians, their wide range of medical interests, and their accomplishments in the field, pertinent medical and autobiographical writings, as well as their impact on the profession and on American culture.
Book Synopsis Reconciling Femininity and Professionalism by : Ayesha Anwar
Download or read book Reconciling Femininity and Professionalism written by Ayesha Anwar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work seeks to investigate how early women physicians in the United States reconciled and retained femininity while also earning professional authority. Chapter 1 investigates the general circumstances that led to the opening of the medical profession, allowing women the opportunity to participate in it. Chapter 2 engages with the rhetorical strategies used by women physicians to counter their detractors. Chapter 3 examines the motivations women had for entering the field and what they perceive the role of women in medicine to be. The third chapter also examines how use of professional authority was used to reframe gender and marginalized racial groups.
Book Synopsis American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: from Sects to Science by : William G. Rothstein
Download or read book American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century: from Sects to Science written by William G. Rothstein and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[According to a survey of medical historians] the most important book of the past decade was William G. Rothstein's American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century."--Reviews in American History.
Book Synopsis The Woman Physician in Late Nineteenth Century American Literature by : Cecil Berit Marshall
Download or read book The Woman Physician in Late Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Cecil Berit Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nineteenth Century Medical Women in Fiction by : Harriet Anne Squier
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Medical Women in Fiction written by Harriet Anne Squier and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Profound Science and Elegant Literature by : Stephanie P. Browner
Download or read book Profound Science and Elegant Literature written by Stephanie P. Browner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change.
Book Synopsis Physicians, Women, and Slaves by : Nicole Zernich
Download or read book Physicians, Women, and Slaves written by Nicole Zernich and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century America, the professionalization of medicine elevated the status of doctors within American society, resulting in increased authority and public respect for the profession. This transition manifested through the publication of professional and popular medical literature published between 1840 and 1910. Although there have been examinations of the effects of professionalization on women and the enslaved, there is little research into the way that it manifested itself through the literature. Public perception of women and the enslaved was directly affected by biomedical research, as well as social and intellectual thought. Although these theories were debated and not entirely embraced by laypeople, the authority claimed by doctors as the only providers of true medical knowledge gave them legitimacy. These ideas became ideals within society and defined what it meant to be male or female, black or white. This thesis contends that the perception of women and the enslaved was negatively affected by the professionalization of medicine and was reflected through various publications, which were consumed by the public and professionals alike. One of the effects was to affirm cultural stereotypes of white women as weak and inferior to white men. The other was that male and female enslaved Africans were categorized scientifically as racially inferior to white men and white women. This increased the lifespan of proslavery arguments and created a legacy of prejudicial thought that carried over well into the twentieth century. While professionalization was beneficial to doctors, their newfound authority allowed them to legitimize the subordination of women and the enslaved.
Book Synopsis Professionalization of Nineteenth Century Women Physicians by : Dorothy M. Bernstein
Download or read book Professionalization of Nineteenth Century Women Physicians written by Dorothy M. Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors by : Tiffany D. Kinney
Download or read book Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors written by Tiffany D. Kinney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors studies how marginalized groups use rhetorical strategies to craft legitimacy for themselves. Kinney uses archival research to parse the rhetorical devices employed by Mormon feminist women. The author assumes a pan-historical methodology by examining four unique examples of notable Mormon feminist rhetors that stretch across the 191-year history of this religion: Emmeline B. Wells (1828–1921), Fawn Brodie (1915–1981), Sonia Johnson (1936–present), and Kate Kelly (1980–present). Backed by intensive analysis, the author finds that Mormon feminist women take up the ancient rhetorical canons as a heuristic to cultivate a position of authority for themselves: Wells employs arrangement patterns, Brodie engages with memory, Johnson draws upon invention practices, and Kelly applies delivery strategies. Scholars and students of communication, rhetoric, religion, and women’s studies will find this book particularly interesting.
