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

Release on 2021-01-19 | by Janice P. Nimura

New York Times Bestseller "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a ...

Author: Janice P. Nimura
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393635553
Category: Medical
Page: 336
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The Doctors Blackwell How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

One of Apple's Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021 "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff 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."

Language: en
Pages: 336

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

Authors: Janice P. Nimura

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-19 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Language: en
Pages: 336

The Doctors Blackwell

Authors: Janice P. Nimura

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-19 - Publisher: W. W. Norton

The world recoiled at the notion of a woman doctor, yet Elizabeth Blackwell persisted--in 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an MD. Her achievement made her an icon--"I am convinced that a new & nobler era is dawning, for Medicine," she wrote--but her sister Emily, eternally

Language: en
Pages: 224

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Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

Books about Readings in U.S. History

Language: en
Pages: 280

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Authors: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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