THIS SIDE OF DOCTORING: Reflections from Women in Medicine
Eliza Lo Chin, , foreword by Janet Bickel. . Sage, $29.95 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-7619-2354-1
Any woman contemplating a career as a physician or already working in the profession will gain a good deal of insight from this collection of personal essays and poems by female physicians over the last century and a half. Organized into categories such as "Internship and Residency," "Mothering and Doctoring," and "Barriers," the anthology presents feminine and feminist perspectives on all aspects of a medical career. Most of the pieces are contemporary and previously unpublished, solicited by Chin, an internist and former Columbia University medical professor. In her essay "We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Men as Medical Mentors," pediatrician and author (
Reviewed on: 01/14/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 432 pages - 978-0-19-515847-2
Portable Document Format (PDF) - 424 pages - 978-1-4522-5216-2