Nimura, Janice P.

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

New York: Norton, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 320pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White cloth over boards with gilt text on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. New / new. Item #59495
ISBN: 9780393635546

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.

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