As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now.
From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. Nimura (Author), & 2 more 953 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 8.98 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women's rights―or with each other. The Doctors Blackwell is recommended for readers who enjoy biographies, history, and books about trailblazing women. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Audible Audiobook Unabridged Janice P. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Her achievement made her an iconI am convinced that a new & nobler era is dawning, for Medicine, she wrotebut her sister Emily, eternally eclipsed, was the more brilliant physician. America in the mid-19th century was rampant with many varieties of. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.Įxploring the sisters' allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. The world recoiled at the notion of a woman doctor, yet Elizabeth Blackwell persistedin 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an MD. Fearing the competition for women patients, physicians barred the door to female doctorsuntil the Blackwells wrenched it open. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment.
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