About the Author

Carolyn Skinner is an associate professor of English at the Ohio State University at Mansfield. She has published essays in Writing Centre Journal, Technical Communication Quarterly, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Rhetoric Review. She is one of the recipients of the 2006 International Writing Centres Association award for outstanding scholarship in an article.

Reviews

"Carolyn Skinner's Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America is an impressive work; her research is both exhaustive and comprehensive. . . . Given the relatively small amount of historical work in medical rhetoric, this text is another strong, valuable and important addition to the excellent research that our field deserves."--Rhetoric Review "Carolyn Skinner's book offers a compelling analysis of argument strategies and ethos, supported by meticulous rhetorical scholarship and presented in a nimble style. Skinner offers a nuanced and accurate portrayal of the development of the medical profession in the late nineteenth century and shows how women organized public lives during those years."--Susan Wells, Temple University