Monstrous brains and puny bodies: the struggle for female physicians in Canada 1800-1950
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Abstract
The end result of medical education for women as said by a male medical professor in 1873 was 'monstrous brains and puny bodies.'It is obvious from this quote that the path for a woman to become a doctor was not easy and it can be said that every 19 th century female doctor in Canada was a pioneer for the future of Canadian medicine.The prevailing view of women at this time was that women were the Almighty's special creations and were susceptible to a multitude of emotional and nervous disorders.The perseverance of a few dedicated women in the mid-19 th century paved the way for females to be able to be educated and practice medicine in Canada.As a woman, there were many struggles and obstacles to be faced in becoming a medical doctor.Pioneering Canadian women in the field of medicine include the first female physician in Canada, Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry; the founders of the first medical colleges for women, Dr. Emily Stowe and Dr. Jennie Trout; and Dr. Maude Abbott, a leader in the field of research on congenital heart disease.Obstacles that these women faced included being allowed to enter into medical school and practice in Canada, social stigma from male counterparts and the general public and the way the profession was run itself posed challenges.In overcoming these struggles, these and many other women made great contributions and strides in medicine and in the feminist movement itself in Canada.The end result of medical education for women as said by a male medical professor in 1873 was 'monstrous brains and puny bodies' (Wynn, 2000).It is obvious from this quote that the path to becoming a doctor for women was not easy and it can be said that every 19 th century female doctor was a pioneer.The prevailing view of women during the 1800s was that women were the Almighty's special creations and were susceptible to a multitude of emotional and nervous disorders (Abram 1985).The resistance for women to pursue medicine is based on the male antagonist notion of sentiment and practicality.This is the notion of an idealized womanhood -that medicine was not for women because the world itself was not for them and that only ~ 62 ~
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.065 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".