By Elianne Riska
Adopting a structural process, this booklet offers a accomplished description and research of the present prestige of ladies physicians in 3 significant Western scientific structures. It exhibits that the careers of girls physicians were formed by way of the historic and organizational possibilities for schooling, perform, and development. As niches opened and limitations fell, ladies have been speedy to exploit the opportunity to check and perform in a variety of scientific fields. scientific Careers and Feminist Agendas covers sociological and feminist concept, contemporary historical past, and the constitution and association of contemporary medication within the 3 international locations from a accomplished, cross-national point of view. the 3 nations serve contrapuntally as examples, respectively, of a marketplace society, a welfare-state society, and a previously communist society in transformation. Theoretical debates are interwoven within the e-book with analyses intensive of structural contingencies. The publication has a twin viewers. in the academy, will probably be utilized in classes in scientific sociology, the sociology of professions, and women’s reviews. Practitioners and coverage makers within the box, conscious of the present upsurge in ladies physicians’ organizing round women’s wellbeing and fitness concerns, will welcome the historic research, present info, and sociological research provided in its pages