Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7422.1054

BMJ 2003;327:1054 (1 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7422.1054

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Exhibition

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians

An exhibition at the National Library of Medicine, the NationalInstitutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, United States, until2 April 2005

www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/

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The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

They treat the whole patient, striving to balance their personallives and the needs of individual patients and entire communities.Deciding which issues to focus upon, they direct research andfunding and are instrumental in implementing the policies, developingthe drugs and treatments, and drafting the legislation to meetemerging medical challenges. They are...America's women physicians.

So not all that different from men, then? "Changing the Faceof Medicine" celebrates women's achievement of parity with menin American medicine, while giving due attention to the oftenappalling adversities over which they have triumphed.

It took a century and a half. When Elizabeth Blackwell graduatedfrom Geneva Medical College in upstate New York in 1849 shewas the first woman to qualify as a doctor since the renaissance.Even then, she had been admitted on to the course only afterthe male student body had voted in favour of it, apparently. . . [Full text of this article]

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