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  • Colonial beginnings: Public men and private women
  • The middle-class woman finds health reform
  • Bringing science into the home: Women enter the medical profession
  • Separate but equal: Medical education for women in the nineteenth century
  • Women and the profession: The docotor as a lady
  • The women professional: The lady as a doctor
  • Science, morality, and women doctors: Mary Putnam Jacobi and Elizabeth Blackwell as representative types
  • Doctors and patients: gender and medical treatment in nineteenth-century America
  • Hopes unfulfilled: Women physicians and the social transformation of American medicine
  • The emergence of social medicine: women's work in the profession
  • Integration in name only
  • Quo Vadis?