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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine is a 2021 book by Janice P. Nimura that examines Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. The book has eight "positive" reviews, eleven "rave" reviews, and one "mixed" review, according to review aggregator Book Marks .
At the same time, she gave lectures to women in the United States and England about the importance of educating women and the profession of medicine for women. [6] In the audience at one of her lectures in England, was a woman named Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who later became the first woman doctor in England, in 1865. [6]
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World is a 2021 non-fiction book by Elinor Cleghorn. Cleghorn provides a cultural history of the impacts of misogyny on western medicine and western medical practice.
Along with women entering the medical field and feminist rights movement, came along the women's health movement which sought alternative methods of health care for women. This came through the creation of self-help books, most notably Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women. [38] This book gave women a "manual" to help understand their ...
The book also contained information intended to guide women on "how to maneuver the American health care system, with subsections called 'The Power and Role of Male Doctors,' 'The Profit Motive in Health Care,'" 'Women as Health Care Workers,' and 'Hospitals.' [42] They put their knowledge into an accessible format that served as a model for ...
“Three Hours To Change Your Life” an excerpt of the book Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler This document is a 35-page excerpt, including the Welcome chapter of the book and Part 1: The Principles of Best Year Yet – three hours to change your life First published by HarperCollins in 1994 and by Warner Books in 1998
Emily Blackwell (October 8, 1826 – September 7, 1910) was a trailblazer in the 19th century, making numerous contributions in the field of medicine and women's rights. Emily was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University , after Nancy Talbot Clark .
The institution's goals were the education of interested women in medical subjects, nursing practices, midwifery, and the training of female physicians. [11] The Ladies' Medical Academy awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree to four women in 1860, and two Diplomas in Midwifery were granted. There were some forty students in all by 1861.