TY - JOUR
T1 - Fictional Women Physicians in the Nineteenth Century
T2 - The Struggle for Self-Identity
AU - Elder, Nancy C.
AU - Schwarzer, Andrew
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - By the late nineteenth century, there were large numbers of women physicians in the United States. Three Realist novels of the time, Dr. Breen's Practice, by William Dean Howells, Dr. Zay, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and A Country Doctor, by Sarah Orne Jewett, feature women doctors as protagonists. The issues in these novels mirrored current issues in medicine and society. By contrasting the lives of these fictional women doctors to their historical counterparts, it is seen that, while the novels are good attempts to he truthful treatments of women physicians' struggles, in certain areas they do not accurately address the concerns of women physicians.
AB - By the late nineteenth century, there were large numbers of women physicians in the United States. Three Realist novels of the time, Dr. Breen's Practice, by William Dean Howells, Dr. Zay, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and A Country Doctor, by Sarah Orne Jewett, feature women doctors as protagonists. The issues in these novels mirrored current issues in medicine and society. By contrasting the lives of these fictional women doctors to their historical counterparts, it is seen that, while the novels are good attempts to he truthful treatments of women physicians' struggles, in certain areas they do not accurately address the concerns of women physicians.
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U2 - 10.1007/BF02276613
DO - 10.1007/BF02276613
M3 - Article
C2 - 11616320
AN - SCOPUS:0029680662
SN - 1041-3545
VL - 17
SP - 165
EP - 177
JO - Journal of Medical Humanities
JF - Journal of Medical Humanities
IS - 3
ER -