The changing face of medicine : women doctors and the evolution of health care in America / Ann K. Boulis, Jerry A. Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulis, Ann K., 1968-

Contributor:

Jacobs, Jerry A., 1955-

Series:

Culture and politics of health care work.

Culture and politics of health care work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women physicians--United States.

Women physicians.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960's, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physicians? Are women transforming the way medicine is practiced? To answer these questions, The Changing Face of Medicine draws on a wide array of sources, including interviews with women physicians and surveys of medical students and practitioners. The analysis is set in the twin contexts of a rapidly evolving medical system and profound shifts in gender roles in American society. Throughout the book, Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs critically examine common assumptions about women in medicine. For example, they find that women's entry into medicine has less to do with the decline in status of the profession and more to do with changes in women's roles in contemporary society. Women physicians' families are becoming more and more like those of other working women. Still, disparities in terms of specialty, practice ownership, academic rank, and leadership roles endure, and barriers to opportunity persist. Along the way, Boulis and Jacobs address a host of issues, among them dual-physician marriages, specialty choice, time spent with patients, altruism versus materialism, and how physicians combine work and family. Women's presence in American medicine will continue to grow beyond the 50 percent mark, but the authors question whether this change by itself will make American medicine more caring and more patient centered. The future direction of the profession will depend on whether women doctors will lead the effort to chart a new course for health care delivery in the United States.

Contents:

Feminization of an evolving profession

Applying for change

The gendered map of contemporary medicine

Gender, sorting, and tracking

Work, family, marriage, and generational change

Women physicians caring for patients

Medicine as a family-friendly profession?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 10/27/2020).

ISBN:

9780801463501

0801463505

9780801463495

0801463491

OCLC:

732957087