Reviews
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell
bkanipe's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
1.25
Writing is clunky and at times difficult to follow with an unclear through-line. Good information but hurt by its presentation.
catalyst226's review against another edition
Really western focus on women in medicine which was to be expected but didn't draw me in for where I am as a reader right now.
lymadebell's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
2.5
I honestly just felt like this book was really dry. I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did, it was very dry history and for a science book about women I feel like it should have been more interesting. We follow three ladies and all their lives interconnect with each other. Elizabeth Blackwell, Lizzie and Sophia... And honestly the part that really got me down was how ingrained science was a man's realm. And I mean, I understand that this is history and these women did have a really hard time but it just seems so dry. It was like Elizabeth this and Lizzie that and Sophia this and we talked about their entire lives and I felt like it could have been more exciting. I've read a lot of history and science books and they just make it seem thrilling and this book was just a drudge of trying to get women's rights in science. It kind of just made me sad for the women of the day and very happy for the women of today and maybe that was the entire point of the book. That's probably the reason I finished it.
keelya's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
I learned so much from this book and grew an immense respect for the first women doctors. They truly changed the entire medical field and modernized it. I really enjoyed each woman’s story and how the author intertwined them. I also read the book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez, which goes over how data often forgets to involve women and their experiences. So many parts of medicine do not have good research or diagnosis for women still today. However the advancements we do have are in many thanks to these first women doctors leading the way in care for women’s bodies.