Female doctors in Canada : experience and culture

9781487523220

x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Preface: Why a book about female doctors?
Acknowledgments
Section one. Introductory perspectives: Female doctors in Canada. The feminization of medicine: Issues and implications / Shelley Ross
"Unsex me here!" Gender as a barrier to female practice: A historical introduction to women doctors in Canada
Professionalization in Canada- An annotated timeline / Heather Stanley
Cultural barriers within medicine / Setorme Tsikata
Current state of women in medicine: The statistics / Deena M. Hamza, Shelley Ross
Section two. Navigating the reality of becoming and being a female physician in a traditionally male profession: Social and cultural issues. Gendered experience, role models and mentorship, leadership, and the hidden curriculum / Cheri Bethune
Female international medical graduates in Canada / Inge Schabort
Section three. Career experience: Examining cultural patterns within the medical community and health care system. Career trajectory of women in medicine: Taming the winds that blow us / Kathleen Gartke, Janet Dollin
Quality of life/ life-work balance / Shelley Ross
Section four. Contemporary perspectives on women in medicine. Women physicians as ethical decision makers / Erin Fredericks
Women and new forms of medicine / Monica Olsen, Mamta Gautam, Gillian Kernaghan
Patients, women family doctors, and patient-centred care / Perle Feldman
Section five. Female doctors in Canada: Futures. Female doctors in Canada: The way forward / Earle Waugh, Shelley Ross, Shirley Schipper
Contributors

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Ross, Shelley, 1970- editor
Schipper, Shirley, editor
Waugh, Earle H., 1936- editor