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Women in White Coats
- How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 1900s, 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, Lizzie Garret Anderson and Sophie 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 in gender and science to reshape how we receive medical care today.
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- Padi
- 2023-03-08
Interesting
To learn about professional women pioneers and their strength and perseverance against adversity and social stereotypes. A reminder of why women are where we are today. Nothing was easy and shouldn't be taken for granted.
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- ssm reader
- 2022-03-02
very informative
very well researched and written. great info. Interesting to learn the history. And we still don't have equality.
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