To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674893047)

In this engagingly written book Thomas Bonner unveils the dramatic story of women's long struggle to become physicians. Focusing both on international comparisons and on the personal histories of many of the pioneers, their determination and dedication, their setbacks and successes, he shows how European and American women gradually broke through the wall of resistance to women in medicine. In pre-Civil War America, in Tsarist Russia, in Victorian England, special schools of medicine for women were widely established as early as 1850 as a kind of way-station on the road to medical coeducation. Only in Switzerland and France, at first, could women study medicine in classes with men. As a result, hundreds and then thousands of women from Russia, Eastern Europe, England, and the United States enrolled in Swiss or Parisian universities to gain the first-class education that was denied them at home. Coming almost literally from "the ends of the earth," they formed the largest migration of professional women in history.

Author: Thomas Neville Bonner
ISBN-10: 0674893042
ISBN-13: 9780674893047
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1995
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.18w x 0.62d