Commitment and the Cultural Mandate: Women in Medicine
Though little overt, "actionable" discrimination is apparent in medical schools, a "discriminatory environment" persists, in part because its structure is based on an understand...
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Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study
Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study Although myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of death and disablement for wom...
A study of breast cancer detection practices and beliefs in black women attending public health clinics
In this study, breast cancer knowledge, beliefs and practices in low income black women were examined. First, focus groups were held with a total of 33 participants. Information...
Discrimination Against Women, Occupational Segregation, and the Relative Wage
As of 1968 the income of women working full-time, year-round was 58 percent of that received by males.' While such factors as continuity of labor force experience, type of educa...
Oral narrative research with black women
Introduction - Kim Marie Vaz Oral Narrative Research with Black Women PART ONE: Ancestor Mothers Ophelia and Me - Martia Graham Goodson Tribute to an Early Narrative Researcher ...
Factors that influence surgical choices in women with breast carcinoma
Abstract BACKGROUND In the absence of medical contraindications, survival after undergoing breast‐conserving therapy (BCT), mastectomy (M), and mastectomy with immediate reconst...
Race, gender, and health
Series Editor's Introduction - John H Stanfield II Foreword - Audrey F Manley Health and Women of Color - Marcia Bayne-Smith A Contextual Overview African American Women - Lorna...
Children Born to Women Denied Abortion
'Compulsory childbearing has varied and sometimes unfavorable consequences for the subsequent life of the child.... The higher incidence of illness and hospitalization..., sligh...