The Doctors Blackwell
How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura
The book chronicles the lives of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, the first and third women to earn medical degrees in the United States, detailing their struggles and triumphs in a male-dominated profession. It explores their impact on the medical field, their establishment of a women-run hospital, and their efforts to open the medical profession to women.
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