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Women in white coats : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine
"In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability t...
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada :
Park Row Books,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The forgotten history of healing
- A lady doctor
- Surely, she is a joke
- Another Elizabeth blazes the trail
- More than a nurse
- Young Sophia
- Sophia in America
- Facing down hurdles as America's first woman doctor
- Changing the culture, one patient at a time
- Lizzie is pushed into private study
- The Blackwells welcome Sophia in New York
- Lizzie takes on London
- Sophia storms Edinburgh
- Emily's turn to shine in New York
- A lady doctor gets married
- The campaign in Edinburgh ends
- Finding a way forward
- Societies and controversies
- A place all their own in London
- On to separate paths
- Epilogue: A lasting legacy.