The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

by Janice P. Nimura

Book Overview

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393635546
• ISBN13: 9780393635546
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"