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The doctors Blackwell : how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine /

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 e...

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Main Author: Nimura, Janice P., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Blackwell, Elizabeth, > 1821-1910.
Blackwell, Emily, > 1826-1910.
Women physicians > United States > Biography.
Women in medicine > United States > Biography.
Sexism in medicine.
Women physicians.
Physicians, Women
Femmes médecins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes en médecine > États-Unis > Biographies.
Sexisme en médecine.
Femmes médecins.
physicians.
MEDICAL > General.
Health.
Women in medicine.
Women physicians > Biography.
Women in medicine > Biography.
United States
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
Creative nonfiction.
Essais fictionnels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Bristol
  • New York
  • Cincinnati
  • Betweenity
  • Admission
  • Blockley almshouse
  • Diploma
  • Paris
  • Setback
  • London
  • Practice
  • Admission, again
  • Edinburgh
  • New faces
  • Infirmary
  • Recognition
  • War
  • College
  • Divergence
  • Coda.

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