Gender, work, and medicine : women and the medical division of labour /

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Imprint:London ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1993.
Description:viii, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Sage studies in international sociology 44
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1558550
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Other authors / contributors:Riska, Elianne
Wegar, Katarina
ISBN:0803989024
0803989032 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Part 2. The Medical Profession
  • Sex Stereotyping of Women Doctors' Contribution to Medicine
  • India
  • Women Doctors in a Changing Profession
  • The Case of Britain
  • Why Women Physicians Will Never be True Equals in the American Medical Profession
  • Women Physicians
  • A New Force in Medicine?
  • Part 3. Other Health Professionals
  • The Subordination of Nurses in Health Care
  • Towards a Social Divisions Approach
  • A Cross-national View of the Status of Midwives
  • Health-Manpower Planning or Gender Relations? The Obvious and the Oblique
  • Part 4. Conclusions
  • Conclusions