Gender, work, and medicine : women and the medical division of labour / edited by Elianne Riska and Katarina Wegar.

London ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1993.

viii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Sex stereotypes in women doctors' contributions to medicine: India / S. Muthu Chidambaram -- Women doctors in a changing profession: the case of Britain / Mary Ann Elston -- Why women physicians will never be true equals in the American medical profession / Judith Lorber -- Women physicians: a new force in medicine? / Elianne Riska and Katarina Wegar -- The subordination of nurses in health care: towards a social divisions approach / Mick Carpenter -- A cross-national view of the status of midwives / Raymond G. DeVries -- Health-manpower planning or gender relations? the obvious and the oblique / Arminée Kazanjian.