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A Painful Inch to Gain - Personal experiences of early women medical students in Britain (Paperback)
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A Painful Inch to Gain - Personal experiences of early women medical students in Britain (Paperback)
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Loot Price R270
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The battles that women had to fight to enter the medical profession
have been well-documented by historians. A Painful Inch to Gain
takes a more personal approach, focusing on the stories of
individual women medical students. Drawing as far as possible on
their own words, Eileen Crofton (who herself qualified as a doctor
during the Second World War) looks at what made these young women
want to pursue a career in medicine in the first place. They knew
they faced considerable obstacles. In the face of male hostility,
how could they ensure that they got as thorough a medical training
as the men? And how could they pay for this training, let alone
feed and clothe themselves? With no role models, how were they to
conduct themselves? What should they wear? How were they to balance
the demands of their profession with their expectations of love and
marriage? Finally, having qualified as doctors, what was to be
their role in their chosen profession?
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