Women physicians and professional ethos in nineteenth-century America / Carolyn Skinner.

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2014]

xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Debating the character of the woman physician -- Prescribing for society: women physicians' reform rhetoric -- Educating the public: women physicians' popular health advice -- Teaching women to talk about sex -- Developing collective ethos in medical editorial writing -- Revising the physician's ethos: women physicians' medical research.