This book was first published in 1860 when access to training in medicine as a profession was not widely accessible to women. In this book, Blackwell argues tha

Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Gen

This anthology of stories, poems, essays and quotations explores the duality of being both a woman and a physician.

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

When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of Ameri