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How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Park Row
March 2022
On Sale: March 15, 2022
Featuring: Sophia Jex-Blake; Garrett Anderson; Elizabeth Blackwell
368 pages
ISBN: 0778311988
EAN: 9780778311980
Kindle: B087JC9CHN
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Non-Fiction Biography | Historical
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 to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society.
Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman’s place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women who, despite countless obstacles, earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same. Though very different in personality and circumstance, together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges—creating for the first time medical care for women by women.
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