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

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.