Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Book by Olivia Campbell
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Publisher : Park Row; Original edition (March 2, 2021) Language : English Hardcover : 368 pages ISBN-10 : 0778389391 ISBN-13 : 978-0778389392 Item Weight : 1 pounds Dimensions : 6.14 x 1.14 x 9.25 inches Best Sellers Rank: #33,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #38 in History of Medicine (Books) #94 in Women in History #317 in Women's Biographies , 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. Read more
REVIEW
This well-researched book features actual women in America and England who pioneered a path for women to become credentialed physicians. It was surprising to learn how much rigid Victorian social and cultural mores prevented women a path to practicing medicine. France and Switzerland were more progressive and represented the only path for American and British women to be educated in the realm of medicine, and wealthy women from those countries could obtain training in those countries, but could not receive credentialing in their native countries. The stories are told with some intermittent editorializing by the author, which was distracting and annoying for a non-fiction, historical book. Recommend for the factual information presented, with caution that this author also chose to bring gender relationships into the storytelling, quite “du jour” in the realm of publishing and entertainment media these days.
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