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Medical careers and feminist agendas : American, Scandinavian, and Russian women physicians / Elainne Riska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riska, Elianne.
- Series:
- Social institutions and social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women physicians--Cross-cultural studies.
- Women physicians.
- Women physicians--United States.
- Social medicine.
- Sexism in medicine.
- Women in medicine.
- United States.
- Women physicians--Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation).
- Women physicians--Scandinavia.
- Women in medicine--Cross-cultural studies.
- Sexism in medicine--Cross-cultural studies.
- Social medicine--Cross-cultural studies.
- Scandinavia.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 171 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [2001]
- Summary:
- Challenging previous studies of the medical profession, which have assumed for the most part a gender-neutral stance, Riska's text provides a different focus. Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas presents a structurally-based, comprehensive, cross-national analysis of the current status of women in three societies where the economics of medical practice vary considerably: a market society; a welfare state; and a formerly communist society in transition. Aimed at a dual audience, this book will be used in courses in medical sociology, the sociology of professions, and women's studies, while its historical breadth, current data, and trenchant probing will furnish practitioners and policy-makers with a needed tool.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Social theories about medical work and gender
- Women's entry into medicine and medical practice in the United States
- Conditions influencing women physicians' careers in Scandinavia
- Women physicians in Russia and the Soviet Union
- Does gender matter? women as medical practitioners
- New pioneers: women in pathology
- Women's challenge of medicine: a revolution from within or outside medicine?
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0202306674
- 0202306682
- OCLC:
- 46473859
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