...Lynne R. Davidson This paper asserts that the selection of medical specialty by women physicians-in-training is a “choice by constraint.” Comparative data on men and women interns and residents are provided in order to document parameters of constraint in three separate areas: 1) subjective reasons...

...Judy Jolley Mohraz Regina Markell Morantz, Cynthia Stodola Pomerleau, and Carol Hansen Fenichel, eds., In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983), 284 pp., $29.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke...

...Meredith Minkler Jessie Allen and Alan Pifer, eds. Women on the Front Lines: Meeting the Challenge of an Aging America . Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1993. 270 pp. $22.95 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews...

...Graham Mooney Christopher Hamlin. Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 368 pp. $64.95 cloth; Nancy Tomes. The Gospel of Germs:Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life . Cambridge: Harvard University...

...Elianne Riska Ellen S. More. Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 340 pp. $49.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Drachman, Virginia G. 1984 . Hospital with a Heart...

...Suzanne Maman Carole A. Campbell. Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 190 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books: Review Symposium...

...Marsha Saxton Michelle Fine and Adrienne Asch, Women with Disabilities (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), 347 pp., $35.00. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Book Reviews 235 appeal to a general audience, which...

...Conevery Bolton Valencius Emily K. Abel. Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin,1850–1940 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 336 pp.$53.00 cloth; $ 20.50 paper. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Books...

...Sarah Bauerle Bass Gay Becker. The Elusive Embryo: How Men and Women Approach New Reproductive Technologies . Berkeley: University of California Press,2000. 330 pp. $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Bass, S. 2001 . Why Can't a Fetus Be More Like...

...Sheryl Burt Ruzek Elianne Riska. Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas: American,Scandinavian, and Russian Women Physicians. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 2001. 172 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003...

...Eugene Declercq Raymond DeVries, Regulating Birth: Medicine, Midwives and the Law (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985), 194 pp., $29.95. Ann Oakley, The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1984), 337 pp., $24.95...

...Mary Jo Deegan Virginia Sapiro, Women, Biology, and Public Policy, Vol. 10 of Sage Yearbooks in Women's Policy Studies (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985), 272 pp. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 824 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law that brought...

...Carol Sakala Sue Fisher, In the Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986), 214 pp., $25.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Book Reviews 371...

...Nancy Wolff Kelley Johnson. Deinstitutionalising Women: An Ethnographic Study of Institutional Closure . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 216 pp. $64.95 cloth; $23.95 paper. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 1186 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Kelley Johnson...

... be used as the basis for depriving pregnant women of their liberty through arrests or forced medical interventions. Over the past four decades, descriptions of selected subsets of arrests and forced interventions on pregnant women have been published. Such cases, however, have never been systematically...

...Amanda Dennis; Kelly Blanchard; Denisse Córdova; Britt Wahlin; Jill Clark; Karen Edlund; Jennifer McIntosh; Lenore Tsikitas We investigated the impact of Massachusetts health care reform on low-income women's experiences accessing insurance and health services, specifically reproductive health...

...Sara Rosenbaum Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Commentary Why Women Bypass Rural Hospitals Sara Rosenbaum Children's Defense Fund In their article "Bypassing Rural Hospitals," published in this issue, Janet Bronstein and Michael Morrisey show...

... ultrasound viewing as a necessary part of patients' abortion decision making, these laws aim to control and constrain how women make personal decisions about their bodies and parenthood. To date, however, the discussion of the impact of ultrasound viewing laws on women's decisional autonomy has occurred...

...Alana M. W. LeBrón; Amy J. Schulz; Cindy Gamboa; Angela Reyes; Edna Viruell-Fuentes; Barbara A. Israel Abstract This study examines how Mexican-origin women construct and navigate racialized identities in a postindustrial northern border community during a period of prolonged restrictive...