Subject Headings

Midwives
Midwifery
Nursing
Sexism in Medicine
Women in Medicine
Women pharmaceutical industry workers
Women physicians
Women surgeons

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Alternative Medicine
Midwives at work
Women and nursing
Women and medicine
Women doctors

Books

The following sources provide basic information and brief introductions to the topic of women in the health professions. Call numbers and locations are listed below the book's description. Refer to the Ask-A-Librarian, IRIS Guide and Building Map pages for more information. Links to online sources are provided.

Chin, Eliza Lo, ed. This side of doctoring : Reflections from women in medicine.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2002.
DOUGLASS STACKS R692.T45 2002

Levin, Beatrice. Women and medicine. 3rd ed.
London : Scarecrow Press, 2002.
DOUGLASS, ROBESON REF R692.L49 2002

Malka, Susan Gelfand. Daring to care : American nursing and second-wave feminism.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2007.
DOUGLASS STACKS RT4.M32 2007

Scrivener, Laurie. A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers: Midwives, Nurses, and Physicians.
Westport, CT: Oryx Press, 2002.
DOUGLASS REF R692.B52 2002

Windsor, Laura Lynn. Women in medicine: an encyclopedia.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
DOUGLASS REF R692.W545 2002

Journals

The journals below may contain relevant articles on your chosen topic. To locate the online versions of these journals, search for the title in IRIS and select "Periodical title begins with" from the dropdown menu. The results page will include a link to the electronic version.

New Jersey Nurse [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Nursing Management [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Women and Health: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Women's Health Issues [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Indexes

Journal articles from a variety of periodical sources can be found via these specialized and multidisciplinary indexes. Students can use their Net ID and password to log into Rutgers Restricted databases from off-campus. See the "How Do I Connect From Home?" guide for more information.

CINAHL
CINAHL provides comprehensive coverage of the nursing and allied health journal literature.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Covers over 1500 sources published by more than 200 organizations around the world. Coverage includes more than 150 periodicals in addition to non-periodical source publications.

MEDLINE
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature.

Websites

American Medical Women's Association

AMA: Women Physicians Congress

Association of Radical Midwives (Facebook page)

Association of Women Surgeons

Midwives and Epidurals (YouTube)

New Jersey State Nurses Association

Sex and Gender in Medicine: Special issue of Virtual Mentor (American Medical Association)
"Women, whether they are patients or physicians, confront sex and gender stereotypes; e.g., women patients exaggerate their pain symptoms; surgery is a man's field. �This issue of Virtual Mentor examines the effects of these stereotypes on men and women in medicine."