WALKING OUT ON THE BOYS PB

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ISBN13: 9780374525958
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In May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school’s unabashed gender discrimination. In this controversial, forthright memoir, Conley portrays the world of academic medicine in which women are still regarded as inferior; she also explains why, as a consequence, the research and remedy of women’s health problems lag far in the back of those of men. In assessing why women’s careers and psyches are suffering, Conley provides a first-person look into what it’s like to be an accomplished woman within this restrictive medical world, offering invaluable advice to patients and future doctors alike.

Here’s Frances Conley’s description of her medical school anatomy class: “[W]e would turn into accustomed and oblivious to the truth that little bits of dead flesh would cling to our clothing and our shoes, and entangle in our hair, traveling with us to other classes or even home, as if the dead were making a futile attempt to retain a tenuous tie to the living.” Just as she felt overcome by the dead in that class, her neurosurgery career was once fraught with sexism and harassment–from her admission as one of just 12 women (out of 60) in her medical school class in 1961 to her decision to resign from Stanford University’s School of Medicine 30 years later. Conley has done each patient–and each female doctor–a sincere favor with this memoir of the games that are played within the academic and medical realms. The book has a bad aftertaste, on the other hand, because Conley’s message isn’t one of empowerment. She was once compelled to resign from her position when the university appointed Dr. Gerald Silverberg as acting chairman of the department. He was once later demoted after a sexual harassment investigation and Conley returned to Stanford life, but, as she says, “The academic community has shown little inclination to change ‘business as usual.'” Conley, now 57, gives a well-written play-by-play of years of sexual shenanigans and legal proceedings, but offers little in the way of advice for women who find themselves at the receiving end of harassment.
ISBN13: 9780374525958
Condition: New
Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

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