Doctors Wanted: No Women Need ApplySexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975
"I recommend it highly as an interesting, readable, and well-researched contribution to the history of women in the professions."—Nathan Glazer "A superb book. Well researched, beautifully written, and fascinating to read. . . . Most of this material has not been pulled together before and this should thus be a landmark in the social history of medicine as well as in studies of the changing role of women."—Rosemary Stevens "This is a valuable study of the relationship between male and female medical practitioners and, more importantly, the women's rights movement. . . . [It] is recommended to scholars in medicine, women's studies, and social and intellectual history."—History "The book provides a strong analysis based on good evidence . . . [as well as] a good framework on which to test new evidence that will be emerging. One learns a lot from it, including how much there is left to discover about the history of women physicians."—Judith Walzer Leavitt, Journal of the History of Medicine "Walsh's book is solidly researched and well written. It should prove of interest and value to both professional historians and contemporary feminists."—Judy Barrett Litoff, The American Historical Review "It is a truly remarkable book and the best available history on women in medicine."—Florence P. Haseltine, Ph.D., M.D. "Mary Roth Walsh has produced a pivotal study that traces the history of women in medicine in this country over the past 150 years, and attempts to place their accomplishments and regressions into historical perspective. . . . Walsh's meticulous and creative scholarship, unencumbered by the emotional overlay that sometimes shadows feminist presentations, exposes the institutional repression that consistently foiled women of aptitude and ambition."—Naomi R. Bluestone, The New England Journal of Medicine "A sensitive, carefully researched, and lively study."—Jane B. Donegan, Journal of American History "Well-organized and well-written, Walsh's book is a model of historical analysis. She avoids unsupported hypotheses and emotional bias and provides valuable data and useful conclusions. This important and readable work is handsomely printed and bound."—Elizabeth C. Patterson, American Scientist "This subtle and sophisticated analysis . . . demonstrates the way in which the medical establishment successfully reversed the trend of women's expansion into the profession in this century, and certainly prevented women doctors from attaining positions of power. . . . [Has] the kind of polemical brilliance and documentation that make[s] [it] fascinating to read."—Alix Nelson, The New York Times Book Review "Beautifully written, well documented, and argued with sociological sophistication. The Boston case study makes especially good reading. . . . And the historical materials and analysis are of special relevance to those interested in professions, in medicine, and in sexual inequality."—Barrie Thorne, American Journal of Sociology "Should be required reading for anyone who seeks to understand either feminism or professionalization in nineteenth-century America."—Social History "People interested in the progress of women in medicine should find this well-referenced, readable book very useful."—Florence P. Haseltine, JAMA "This book should be read not only by those interested in the history of women, medicine and the professions but also by women in medicine today. It should be read too by all women who want to understand a little more about the beliefs, ideas and constraints which structure the society in which we live."—Lorna Duffin, Women's Studies International Quarterly "This is an important book that should be placed on the shelves of libraries serving high school students, the collegiate audience, and beyond. Impressively documented and clearly written but flawed by the omission of a critical essay on sources."—Choice
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