Women in White Coats (eBook, ePUB) - Campbell, Olivia
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The New York Times Bestseller The triumphant story of three courageous women who become the first female doctors. xe2x80x98These women changed the worldxe2x80x99 - Nina Sankovitch, bestselling author of American Rebels 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 painful, and women faced damaging social stigma from illness. Despite countless obstacles, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a womanxe2x80x99s place…mehr

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The New York Times Bestseller The triumphant story of three courageous women who become the first female doctors. xe2x80x98These women changed the worldxe2x80x99 - Nina Sankovitch, bestselling author of American Rebels 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 painful, and women faced damaging social stigma from illness. Despite countless obstacles, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a womanxe2x80x99s place in the male-dominated medical field. The three pioneers earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same, then built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges xe2x80x93 creating for the first time medical care for women by women.

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Olivia Campbell is the New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats. An accomplished journalist and essayist, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, New York Magazine, HISTORY, and The Guardian, among others. She is an editor at Dotdash Meredith and a thesis advisor for Johns Hopkins University's science writing program.