The Doctors Blackwell

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

• Author : Janice P. Nimura
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 14,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-01-19
• Genre: Medical
• Pages : 352
• ISBN 10 : 9780393635553

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New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff 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 was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."

Who Says Women Can t Be Doctors

• Author : Tanya Lee Stone
• Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
• File Size : 14,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-02-19
• Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
• Pages : 40
• ISBN 10 : 9781466831797

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In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors. But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that women weren't smart enough to be doctors, or that they were too weak for such hard work. And she would not take no for an answer. Although she faced much opposition, she worked hard and finally—when she graduated from medical school and went on to have a brilliant career—proved her detractors wrong. This inspiring story of the first female doctor shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all the female doctors to come. Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? by Tanya Lee Stone is an NPR Best Book of 2013 This title has common core connections.

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

• Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 14,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1895
• Genre: Electronic books
• Pages : 290
• ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433082358072

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An autobiography of Elizabeth Blackwell, €Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women provides experienced advice from the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.

Women in White Coats

• Author : Olivia Campbell
• Publisher : Harlequin
• File Size : 5,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-03-02
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 358
• ISBN 10 : 9781488073922

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care. 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. With gripping storytelling based on extensive research and access to archival documents, Women in White Coats tells the courageous history these women made by becoming doctors, detailing the boundaries they broke of gender and science to reshape how we receive medical care today.

Elizabeth Blackwell

• Author : Trina Robbins
• Publisher : Capstone
• File Size : 19,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2006-09
• Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
• Pages : 36
• ISBN 10 : 0736896600

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Tells the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. Written in graphic-novel format.

The Doctors Blackwell

• Author : Janice P Nimura
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• File Size : 14,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-01-19
• Genre: Medical
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 9780393635546

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New York Times Bestseller "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff 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 was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."

Elizabeth Blackwell

• Author : Joanne Landers Henry
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 13,8 Mb
• Release Date : 1996-04
• Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
• Pages : 198
• ISBN 10 : 9780689806278

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The life of the first woman doctor in the United States, who worked in England and America to open the field of medicine to women.

The Excellent Doctor Blackwell

• Author : Julia Boyd
• Publisher : Lume Books
• File Size : 17,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-04
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 346
• ISBN 10 : 1839012935

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When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark - 'What, trust a woman doctor - never!' Yet by the time Dr Blackwell died in 1910 there were hundreds of women practising medicine on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks in no small part to her courage and determination. Using a treasure trove of primary sources, the book reveals how Elizabeth Blackwell's pioneering efforts helped to fundamentally change the status of women in the West. The Excellent Doctor Blackwell tells a remarkable story, taking in the women's rights movement, the American Civil War and Elizabeth's personal tragedy, with a fascinating cast of characters, from Abraham Lincoln to Florence Nightingale.

Elizabeth Blackwell

• Author : Tristan Boyer Binns
• Publisher : Franklin Watts
• File Size : 9,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2005
• Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
• Pages : 111
• ISBN 10 : 0531124029

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Presents the true story of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, who opened the first women-run hospital in New York.

Daughters of the Samurai

• Author : Janice P Nimura
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• File Size : 10,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-05-17
• Genre: History
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 9780393352788

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A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life." —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan—a land grown foreign to them—determined to revolutionize women’s education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment.

A Curious Herbal Containing Five Hundred Cuts of the Most Useful Plants which are Now Used in the Practice of Physick Engraved by Elizabeth Blackwell

• Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 10,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1739
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 650
• ISBN 10 : BML:37001100074116

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Unwell Women

• Author : Elinor Cleghorn
• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 19,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-06-08
• Genre: History
• Pages : 400
• ISBN 10 : 9780593182963

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A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

Three 19th century Women Doctors

• Author : Mary K. LeClair
• Publisher : Hofmann Press
• File Size : 14,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2007
• Genre: African American physicians
• Pages : 148
• ISBN 10 : UCLA:L0099533713

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They Dared to be Doctors

• Author : Mary St. J. Fancourt
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 6,8 Mb
• Release Date : 1967
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 148
• ISBN 10 : OCLC:629657418

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A Doctor s Dozen

• Author : Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH
• Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
• File Size : 19,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2018-09-04
• Genre: Health & Fitness
• Pages : 242
• ISBN 10 : 9781512603002

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Burnout affects a third of our population and over half of our health professionals. For the second group, the impact is magnified, as consequences play out not only on a personal level, but also on a societal level and lead to medical errors, suboptimal care, low levels of patient satisfaction, and poor clinical outcomes. Achieving wellbeing requires strategies for change. In this book, Dr. Pipas shares twelve lessons and strategies for improved health that she has learned from patients, students, and colleagues over her twenty years working as a family physician. Each lesson is based on observation and research, and begins with a story of an exemplary patient whose challenges and successes reflect the theme of the lesson. Along with the lessons, the author offers plans for action, which taken together create the framework for a healthy life. Each lesson concludes with resources and a "health challenge."