Elder N C, Schwarzer A
Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, 97201 USA.
J Med Humanit. 1996;17(3):165-77. doi: 10.1007/BF02276613.
By the late nineteenth century, there were large numbers of women physicians in the United States. Three Realist novels of the time, Dr. Breen's Practice, by William Dean Howells, Dr. Zay, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and A Country Doctor, by Sarah Orne Jewett, feature women doctors as protagonists. The issues in these novels mirrored current issues in medicine and society. By contrasting the lives of these fictional women doctors to their historical counterparts, it is seen that, while the novels are good attempts to be truthful treatments of women physicians' struggles, in certain areas they do not accurately address the concerns of women physicians.
到19世纪后期，美国出现了大量女医生。当时的三部现实主义小说，威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯的《布林医生的诊所》、伊丽莎白·斯图尔特·费尔普斯的《扎伊医生》以及莎拉·奥恩·朱厄特的《乡村医生》，都以女医生为主角。这些小说中的问题反映了当时医学和社会的现实问题。通过将这些虚构的女医生的生活与她们的历史原型进行对比，可以看出，虽然这些小说是对女医生奋斗历程进行真实描绘的有益尝试，但在某些方面，它们并没有准确地反映女医生所关心的问题。
