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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell

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potatowitch's review

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

Trying to strengthen the Sophia Jex-Blake energy in my life

Women in White Coats really helps to contextualize the overall movement for women's education, medical licensure, and engagement in professions. At first I thought the book might be separate short biographies of the subjects, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the biographies are intertwined with each other as well as the overall narrative of the movement and relevant historical events. It's much more engaging to have the context for how these women interracted and corresponded with each other. The inspirations, lessons, and cautions they took from each other are so clear through the narrative structure. Really well done!

I enjoyed The Doctors Blackwell quite a bit, and I appreciated how much it enlightened me to the internalized sexism, eugenics, and other awful tendencies in Elizabeth Blackwell's values. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed that book, and vice versa.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment