The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Nimura, Janice P.

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope...
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Author: Janice P. Nimura
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Language: English
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Nimura, Janice P.

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

€39,32

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

€39,32
Author: Janice P. Nimura
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of ordinary womanhood. 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. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.

Exploring the sisters' allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women's rights--or with each other. 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. As Elizabeth herself predicted, a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now.



Author: Janice P. Nimura
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780393635546


Award: Pulitzer Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2020 pg. 6
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2020
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2020
Library Journal 01/01/2021 pg. 87

About the Author
Nimura, Janice P.: - Janice P. Nimura is the winner of a 2017 Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.

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