The Doctors Blackwell

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

The Doctors Blackwell
Janice P Nimura
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Hardback
h239 x 160mm - 336pg
19 Jan 2021 US
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9780393635546
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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. "
"A riveting dual biography of America' s first female physicians. . . A compellingly portrayed and vividly realized biography of triumph and trailblazing. " -- Kirkus (starred review) "Janice P. Nimura has gifted us with more than a splendid history of the Blackwell sisters. Gripping, vividly written, and moving, it is also a surprisingly timely history of the misogynist, limited, still evolving Anglo-American medical profession. " -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volumes 1-3 "The Doctors Blackwell should be required reading in all medical schools, indeed for anyone who has ever consulted a doctor. This rousing story of two brilliant and determined nineteenth-century sisters is also a history of American medicine-how it was practiced and by whom. That the Blackwells arrived in the United States during a cholera epidemic and made it their mission to provide medical care to the underserved, while also promoting the twin causes of women' s rights and abolition, brings this narrative hurtling into the twenty-first century, demanding our attention today. " -- Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life "A captivating biography. . . In recounting the lives of two ambitious figures who opened doors for many who came after them, Nimura casts a thoughtful and revelatory new light onto women' s and medical history. " -- Publisher' s Weekly (starred review) "All doctors and all patients owe a debt to these eccentric, determined, brilliant characters, Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, who found their way across the strange and bloody landscape of nineteenth-century medicine and transformed it forever, all brilliantly conjured in Janice P. Nimura' s wonderful book. " -- Perri Klass, author of A Good Time to Be Born "The Blackwell sisters took on the medical establishment and won. They are heroines, not just of their time, but for every age. Their incredible story has been crying out to be told, and in Janice P. Nimura they have the ideal biographer. The Blackwells live and triumph again. " -- Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire "With the fiercely intelligent, prickly sisters at the center, Nimura' s engrossing and enlightening group biography is highly recommended. " -- Sara Jorgensen - Booklist (starred review)
Janice P. Nimura is the winner of a 2017 Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780393635546
Published: 19 Jan 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 239mm
Width: 160mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 575g
Pages: 336

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