| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Ellen S. More. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 340. $49.95.

Some readers of the AHR will recall the days when just about the only thing written on the history of women in American medicine was a short essay by Richard Harrison Shryock. But starting with the late Mary Roth Walsh's "Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply": Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835–1975 (1977), this has become a standard topic within women's history and American history. Ellen S. More is the latest to provide a one-volume survey of women in American medicine. This is at once a local, a national, and even an international subject, as foreign wars have opened doors and opportunities to American women physicians. More's main theme is one of physicians' achieving "balance" in their lives and in their medical judgment, but this reviewer found other themes more exciting, especially the one that modernization, especially at the hospital and medical school, meant marginalization of women. 1

More's first chapter focuses on Sarah Dolley, MD, of Rochester, New York, a graduate of the upstate and coeducational Central Medical College and a practitioner for more than fifty years, first with her physician husband and then with a female partner with whom she also boarded patients at home. She was also a friend of Frances Willard and Susan B. Anthony and in many respects the mainstay of the Rochester women's medical community; the all-female Practitioner (later Blackwell) Society could at its peak boast of a membership that was seven percent of the city's total and that ran a city dispensary from 1887 until 1897. . . .

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