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== See also ==

== References ==

== Bibliography ==
Abram, Ruth Abram., Send Us a Lady Physician: Women Doctors in America, 1835–1920
Benton, John F. (1985). "Trotula, Women's Problems, and the Professionalization of Medicine in the Middle Ages". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 59 (1): 30–53. JSTOR 44452036. PMID 3886049. ProQuest 1296295309.
Blake, Catriona.  The Charge of the Parasols: Women's Entry to the Medical Profession
Borst, Charlotte G.  Catching Babies: Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920 (1995), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Elisabeth Brooke, Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives (biographical encyclopedia)
Chenevert, Melodie. STAT: Special Techniques in Assertiveness Training for Women in the Health Profession
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich, For Her Own Good (gendering of history of midwifery and professionalization of medicine)
Fette, Julie (2007). "Pride and Prejudice in the Professions: Women Doctors and Lawyers in Third Republic France". Journal of Women's History. 19 (3): 60–86. doi:10.1353/jowh.2007.0055. S2CID 144728859. Project MUSE 221409.
Grant, Susan-Mary (June 2012). "On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War". American Nineteenth Century History. 13 (2): 276–278. doi:10.1080/14664658.2012.720092. S2CID 144169798.
Henderson, Metta Lou. American Women Pharmacists: Contributions to the Profession
Junod, Suzanne White and Seaman, Barbara, eds. Voices of the Women's Health Movement, Volume OneSeven Stories Press. New York. 2012. pp 60–62.
Leneman, Leah (April 1994). "Medical women at war, 1914–1918". Medical History. 38 (2): 160–177. doi:10.1017/S0025727300059081. PMC 1036842. PMID 8007751.
Luchetti, Cathy. Medicine Women: The Story of Early-American Women Doctors. New York: Crown,
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (1985 first ed.; 2001)
More, Ellen S.  Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995
Perrone, Bobette H. et al. Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors (1993); cross-cultural anthropological survey of traditional societies
Pringle, Rosemary. Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession
Schwirian, Patricia M. Professionalization of Nursing: Current Issues and Trends (1998), Philadelphia: Lippencott, ISBN 0781710456
Walsh, Mary Roth. Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835–1975 (1977)

=== Biographies ===
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (1991)
Rebecca Wojahn, Dr. Kate: Angel on Snowshoes (1956)

== External links ==
The Archives for Women in Medicine Archived 3 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
"Changing the Face of Medicine", 2003 Exhibition at the National Library of Medicine;"NLM Exhibit Honors Outstanding Women", NIH Record, 11 November 2003. exhibition website at Changing the Face of Medicine .
Women are Changing the face of medicine
Women Physicians: 1850s–1970s Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine – online exhibit at the Drexel University College of Medicine Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Homeopathy
"The Stethoscope Sorority", an online exhibit from the Archives for Women in Medicine Archived 3 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine
Women in Medicine Oral History Project Collection Archived 23 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
What's It Like to Be a Woman in Medicine? – online website at Cedar Sinai