"This volume examines the wide-ranging careers and diverse lives of American women physicians, shedding light on their struggles for equality, professional acco

Women have traditionally been expected to tend the sick as part of their domestic duties; yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accept

Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them. Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients a

"Changing the face of medicine", an exhibition that celebrates America's women physicians, premiered in the fall of 2003 at the National Library of Medicine. Th

The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering m