Vol 17, No 2 (2016)

Vol 17, No 2 (2016)

Women and Medicine in American Literature and Culture

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial Introduction: Women and Medicine in American Literature and Culture

Ingrid Gessner

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Articles

Bearing Independence: The Concept of Social Childbirth in Martha Ballard's Life Writing

Bettina Huber

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From Pearl Harbor (1941) to Pearl Harbor (2001): On the Emancipatory Potential of Nursing During Wartime and its Representation in Hollywood Film

Susanne Bueechl

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The Medical Gaze in Psychiatric Treatment: Women Doctors and Nurses in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted

Ramona Schmidt

“Do You Know” of the Conflict of Having a Family and Career as a Female Surgeon? The Representation of Cristina Yang in ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy

Barbara Biederer

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Epilogue: Women in the Medical Profession. No Choice or Choiceosie?

Carmen Birkle

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ISSN: 1861-6127