Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers…
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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. 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 Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful.
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