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Klappentext This critical assessment of the division of labour in medicine sets current practice in its historical context. The book demonstrates the centrality of gender divisions both between and within the individual medical and health professions - doctors, nurses, midwives and others. Drawing on accounts from different countries and a wide range of professional groups, the contributors examine the extent to which the division of labour is changing and the effect of such changes on the status of women within the health professions. While the proportion of female doctors is rising, the continued constraints on women attaining full equality are explored. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates the centrality of gender in medicine - both between and within the individual medical professions - doctors! nurses! midwives and others. A critical assessment of the historical development and present character of the gendered division of labour in medicine is provided. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction - Elianne Riska PART TWO: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Sex Stereotyping of Women Doctors' Contribution to Medicine - S Muthu Chidambaram India Women Doctors in a Changing Profession - Mary Ann Elston The Case of Britain Why Women Physicians Will Never be True Equals in the American Medical Profession - Judith Lorber Women Physicians - Elianne Riska and Katarina Wegar A New Force in Medicine? PART THREE: OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONALS The Subordination of Nurses in Health Care - Mick Carpenter Towards a Social Divisions Approach A Cross-national View of the Status of Midwives - Raymond G de Vries Health-Manpower Planning or Gender Relations? The Obvious and the Oblique - Arnim[ac]ee Kazanjian PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS Conclusions - Katarina Wegar
