Women in White Coats

How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

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Olivia Campbell

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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.

Author Biography:

Olivia Campbell is the New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. She is a health editor at Dotdash Meredith and a thesis advisor for Johns Hopkins University's science writing program. Campbell's work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, New York Magazine, HISTORY, and The Guardian, among others. Her second book, Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History is forthcoming in December 2024.

Release date Australia

March 15th, 2022

Author

Olivia Campbell

Pages

368

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

132x201x25

ISBN-13

9780778311980

Product ID

35667279

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