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Campbell, Olivia.
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Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 1836-1917.
Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1840-1912.
Women physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women physicians -- Biography.
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- History -- 19th century.
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Campbell, Olivia.
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 1836-1917.
Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1840-1912.
Women physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women physicians -- Biography.
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- History -- 19th century.
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Women
in
white
coats
:
how
the
first
women
doctors
changed
the
world
of
medicine
/ Olivia Campbell.
by
Campbell, Olivia.
Thorndike Press/Cengage Company, c2021.
Call #:
LP 610.922 C189w
Subjects
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 1836-1917.
Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1840-1912.
Women
physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women
physicians -- Biography.
Medicine
-- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine
-- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781643589336 (large print hc.)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
447 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"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."
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