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1) The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
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"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...
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2012
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English
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"In 1937 senior medical students from New Orleans, Louisiana, and Omaha, Nebraska, met at the Mayo Clinic and began a two-year correspondence. Their courtship letters shed light on early 20th century society, hospitals, and health care"--Provided by publisher.
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