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The Doctors Blackwell

How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Summary:

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.

Key points:

1. Women's Fight for Medical Education: The book discusses Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell's struggle to become the first female doctors in America, overcoming gender-based discrimination and ridicule.

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