his study examines the numerous logistical, cultural and psychological obstacles that midwives had to overcome before women in the Sundsvall region of Sweden would entrust them to deliver their infants. By extension, this analysis reveals the tenuous position academic medicine had in many remote villages. These well-trained women benefitted from numerous pieces of legislation designed to enable...

Information collected and disseminated through the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) documents that women are currently entering medicine at a rate very similar to men. As recently as 1985, almost 75% of medical student graduates were male. Not surprisingly, men occupy appointments as full professors and associate professors far more often than women. On the surface of it, this ma...