Delese Wear is Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Associate Director of Women in Medicine, and Coordinator of the Human Values in Medicine Program at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. She has published two other books with SUNY Press, having edited The Center of the Web: Women and Solitude; and co-authored Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in Literature.

"This anthology of experience provides a historical reference point at a pivotal time for medicine in the United States. The common concern, articulated by all, is that a cultural shift must occur, a rigid structure become moldable or broken, or abolished." — Frances K. Conley, from the Foreword"Delese Wear has brought together an impressive assemblage of authors, diverse as to age, training, and experience, whose combined voices strengthen the book's important message. Displaying insight and sensitivity, the authors write with honesty and clarity on a topic sorely in need of illumination and significant to all—male and female—in medical education." — Mollie M. Wallick, Louisiana State University School of Medicine

• ForewordFrances K. ConleyIntroductionI. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives1. Overview of Women Physicians in the United StatesLeah J. Dickstein2. Leveling the Playing Field: A National Perspective on Sexism and Professional Development in MedicineJanet Bickel3. Women's Programs at Medical Schools and Feminism: What is the Intersection?Delese Wear and Janet BickelII. Training and Workplace Perspectives4. Lighting Candles, Making Sparks, and Remembering Not To ForgetJacalyn Duffin5. A Feminist in the Medical Academy: An Idealistic Pragmatist AccountMary B. Mahowald6. Father Knows Best...?Deborah L. Jones7. A Black Woman in MedicineDale G. Blackstock8. The Feminization of MedicinePerri Klass9. If the Suit Fits...Kate H. Brown10. Feminist Criticism in Literature and MedicineDelese Wear11. Innovations in Residency Education: General Internal Medicine - Women's Health Residency TrackPamela Charney12. Life as a Sheep in the Cow's PastureMarian Gray SecundyIII. Personal and Professional Identities13. The Echo of My Mother's FootstepsRebekah Wang-Cheng14. How Medicine Tried to Make a Man Out of Me (And Failed, Finally)Lucy M. Candib15. Moments of Becoming: After Virginia WoolfBeth Alexander16. Special ArmorMarjorie S. SirridgeReferencesContributorsIndex

Delese Wear is Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Associate Director of Women in Medicine, and Coordinator of the Human Values in Medicine Program at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. She has published two other books with SUNY Press, having edited The Center of the Web: Women and Solitude; and co-authored Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in Literature.

"This anthology of experience provides a historical reference point at a pivotal time for medicine in the United States. The common concern, articulated by all, is that a cultural shift must occur, a rigid structure become moldable or broken, or abolished." — Frances K. Conley, from the Foreword"Delese Wear has brought together an impressive assemblage of authors, diverse as to age, training, and experience, whose combined voices strengthen the book's important message. Displaying insight and sensitivity, the authors write with honesty and clarity on a topic sorely in need of illumination and significant to all—male and female—in medical education." — Mollie M. Wallick, Louisiana State University School of Medicine

• ForewordFrances K. ConleyIntroductionI. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives1. Overview of Women Physicians in the United StatesLeah J. Dickstein2. Leveling the Playing Field: A National Perspective on Sexism and Professional Development in MedicineJanet Bickel3. Women's Programs at Medical Schools and Feminism: What is the Intersection?Delese Wear and Janet BickelII. Training and Workplace Perspectives4. Lighting Candles, Making Sparks, and Remembering Not To ForgetJacalyn Duffin5. A Feminist in the Medical Academy: An Idealistic Pragmatist AccountMary B. Mahowald6. Father Knows Best...?Deborah L. Jones7. A Black Woman in MedicineDale G. Blackstock8. The Feminization of MedicinePerri Klass9. If the Suit Fits...Kate H. Brown10. Feminist Criticism in Literature and MedicineDelese Wear11. Innovations in Residency Education: General Internal Medicine - Women's Health Residency TrackPamela Charney12. Life as a Sheep in the Cow's PastureMarian Gray SecundyIII. Personal and Professional Identities13. The Echo of My Mother's FootstepsRebekah Wang-Cheng14. How Medicine Tried to Make a Man Out of Me (And Failed, Finally)Lucy M. Candib15. Moments of Becoming: After Virginia WoolfBeth Alexander16. Special ArmorMarjorie S. SirridgeReferencesContributorsIndex

Delese Wear is Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Associate Director of Women in Medicine, and Coordinator of the Human Values in Medicine Program at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. She has published two other books with SUNY Press, having edited The Center of the Web: Women and Solitude; and co-authored Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in Literature.

"This anthology of experience provides a historical reference point at a pivotal time for medicine in the United States. The common concern, articulated by all, is that a cultural shift must occur, a rigid structure become moldable or broken, or abolished." — Frances K. Conley, from the Foreword"Delese Wear has brought together an impressive assemblage of authors, diverse as to age, training, and experience, whose combined voices strengthen the book's important message. Displaying insight and sensitivity, the authors write with honesty and clarity on a topic sorely in need of illumination and significant to all—male and female—in medical education." — Mollie M. Wallick, Louisiana State University School of Medicine

• ForewordFrances K. ConleyIntroductionI. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives1. Overview of Women Physicians in the United StatesLeah J. Dickstein2. Leveling the Playing Field: A National Perspective on Sexism and Professional Development in MedicineJanet Bickel3. Women's Programs at Medical Schools and Feminism: What is the Intersection?Delese Wear and Janet BickelII. Training and Workplace Perspectives4. Lighting Candles, Making Sparks, and Remembering Not To ForgetJacalyn Duffin5. A Feminist in the Medical Academy: An Idealistic Pragmatist AccountMary B. Mahowald6. Father Knows Best...?Deborah L. Jones7. A Black Woman in MedicineDale G. Blackstock8. The Feminization of MedicinePerri Klass9. If the Suit Fits...Kate H. Brown10. Feminist Criticism in Literature and MedicineDelese Wear11. Innovations in Residency Education: General Internal Medicine - Women's Health Residency TrackPamela Charney12. Life as a Sheep in the Cow's PastureMarian Gray SecundyIII. Personal and Professional Identities13. The Echo of My Mother's FootstepsRebekah Wang-Cheng14. How Medicine Tried to Make a Man Out of Me (And Failed, Finally)Lucy M. Candib15. Moments of Becoming: After Virginia WoolfBeth Alexander16. Special ArmorMarjorie S. SirridgeReferencesContributorsIndex