Here's another possibility: Katie Watson and Mary Mahowald, "Honoring
Gender-based Patient Requests for Obstetricians: Ethical Imperative or
Employment Discrimination?" Journal of Women's Health, Sept. 1999.
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From: Feminist Approaches to Bioethics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Laura Shanner
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:30 PM
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Subject: Re: sexism
I'm afraid I don't have the full references handy, but here are a couple
of things to follow up on for examples:
In the late 1980's-early 90's a female med student at Georgetown Univ.
(Washington DC) filed a lawsuit against the medical school for refusing to
allow her to do the urology/proctology clinical residency component. The
reason was that male patients would be uncomfortable w/ a female physician,
but male students were of course allowed to participate in gynaecology
exams.
There is an article in the Canadian Medical Assn Journal from around
1995-97 (?) of a survey of how many female physicians report being sexually
harrassed by patients as well as colleagues.
good luck!
Laura
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----- Original Message -----
From: Arleen L. SALLES
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:00 PM
Subject: sexism
I am looking for articles dealing with sexism within the medical
profession. Can anybody think of any papers on this issue offhand? I will
do a search, but I was wondering if anybody remembered any good articles or
chapters.
Thanks,
Arleen Salles
