Female Doctors in Canada

Experience and Culture

Earle Waugh, Shirley Schipper, Shelley Ross (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2322-0 (ISBN)

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Female Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession. As the ratio of practicing physicians shifts from predominately male to predominately female, issues such as work hours, caregiving, and doctor-patient relationships will all be affected.

Canada's medical education is based on a system that has always been designed by and for men; this is also true of our healthcare systems, influencing how women practice, what type of medicine they choose to practice, and how they wish to balance their personal lives with their work. With the intent to open a larger conversation, Female Doctors in Canada reconsiders medical education, health systems, and expectations, in light of the changing face of medicine.

Highlighting the particular experience of women working in the medical profession, the editors trace the history of female practitioners, while also providing a perspective on the contemporary struggles women face as they navigate a system that was tailored to the male experience, and is yet to be modified.

Earle H. Waugh is Director Emeritus of the Centre for Health and Culture in Family Medicine at the University of Alberta. Shirley Schipper is an associate professor with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta. Shelley Ross is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta.

Preface: Why a Book about Female Doctors?
Acknowledgments

Section One. Introductory Perspectives: Female Doctors in Canada
1. The Feminization of Medicine: Issues and Implications
SHELLEY ROSS
2. "Unsex Me Here!" Gender as a Barrier to Female Practice: A Historical Introduction to Women Doctors in Canada
Professionalization in Canada – An Annotated Timeline
HEATHER STANLEY
3. Cultural Barriers within Medicine
SETORME TSIKATA
4. Current State of Women in Medicine: The Statistics
DEENA M. HAMZA AND SHELLEY ROSS

Section Two. Navigating the Reality of Becoming and Being a Female Physician in a Traditionally Male Profession: Social and Cultural Issues
5. Gendered Experience, Role Models and Mentorship, Leadership, and the Hidden Curriculum
CHERI BETHUNE
6. Female International Medical Graduates in Canada
INGE SCHABORT

Section Three. Career Experience: Examining Cultural Patterns within the Medical Community and Health Care System
7. Career Trajectory of Women in Medicine: Taming the Winds That Blow Us
KATHLEEN GARTKE AND JANET DOLLIN
8. Quality of Life/Life-Work Balance
SHELLEY ROSS

Section Four. Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Medicine
9. Women Physicians as Ethical Decision Makers
ERIN FREDERICKS
10. Women Physicians and New Forms of Medicine
MONICA OLSEN, MAMTA GAUTAM, AND GILLIAN KERNAGHAN
|11. Patients, Women Family Doctors, and Patient-Centred Care
PERLE FELDMAN

Section Five. Female Doctors in Canada: Futures
12. Female Doctors in Canada: The Way Forward
EARLE WAUGH, SHELLEY ROSS, AND SHIRLEY SCHIPPER

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Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2019
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
ISBN-10	1-4875-2322-X / 148752322X
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-2322-0 / 9781487523220
Zustand	Neuware