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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1324020202
ISBN: 9781324020202
Physical Description: print
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York, N.Y. W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published as a Norton paperback 2022"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-307) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.