This Side of Doctoring Reflections from Women in Medicine [Hardcover]

This Side of Doctoring: Reflections for Women in Medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories, poems, essays, and quotations that captures the joy and heartbreak of being women and being a physician. Editor Eliza Lo Chin (MD, Harvard Medical School) has gathered more than 100 voices that speak to the trials, rewards, and surprises of practicing medicine. Beginning with the writings of early medical pioneers, the anthology weaves a rich patchwork of experiences. 

Raw and honest, This Side of Doctoring acquaints us with worlds we could otherwise only imagine. Throughout these pages you'll find the expressions of courage, doubt, fatigue, perseverance, frustration, and triumph that make up the lives of women physicians. These are the stories of choosing a life in medicine and the many roadmaps that women follow in living that life.

 

Like a patchwork quilt, this richly-textured compilation represents each womans extraordinary life and career while their common experiences clearly emerge, cutting across different specialties, ages, and geographic divides. 

Foreword - Janet Bickel
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Eliza Lo Chin
1. Historical Perspective - Eliza Lo Chin
2. Early Pioneers
Glances and Glimpses - Harriet Hunt
Letters from Elizabeth Blackwell - Elizabeth Blackwell
In the Words of Mary Putnam Jacobi - Mary Putnam Jacobi
The Fortress - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Some of My Life Experiences - Bethenia A. Owens-Adair
From More Than Gold in California - Mary Bennett Ritter
From Mine Eyes Have Seen - Alfreda Withington
Petticoat Surgeon - Bertha Van Hoosen
From A Child Went Forth - Helen MacKnight Doyle
Fighting for Life - S. Josephine Baker