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

Author/Creator:

Nimura, Janice P., author

Publication/Creation:

New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Resource Type:

Book

Edition:

First edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The doctors Blackwell : how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine / Janice P. Nimura

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Biography
Biographies

Subjects:

Blackwell, Elizabeth,1821-1910--Health
Blackwell, Emily,1826-1910--Health
Women physicians--United States--Biography
Women in medicine--United States--Biography
Sexism in medicine
Physicians, Women
United States

Description/Summary

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.

Summary:

"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male medical establishment and in 1849 she became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. But Elizabeth's story is incomplete without her often forgotten sister, Emily, the third woman in America to receive a medical degree. Exploring the sisters' allies, enemies and enduring partnership, Nimura presents a story of both trial and triumph: Together the sisters founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary; they were also judgmental, uncompromising, and occasionally misogynistic--their convictions as 19th-century women often contradicted their ambitions. From Bristol, England, to the new cities of antebellum America, this work of rich history follows the sister doctors as they transform the nineteenth century medical establishment and, in turn, our contemporary one"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937286390302486

ISBN:

9780393635546
0393635546

OCLC Number:

1155067347

Barcode:

010003088626