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

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

Janice P. Nimura

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history informative inspiring slow-paced
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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,...

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