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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.
How did three women defy a world built to exclude them and change medicine forever?
- Pioneering Women: Meet Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Sophia Jex-Blake—three relentless women who defied society to become the first female doctors.
- 19th-Century Medicine: Discover the grim reality of Victorian healthcare, where demeaning examinations and social stigma kept women from receiving life-saving treatment.
- Women's History: Uncover the forgotten story of how women-run hospitals and teaching colleges were built, creating medical care for women, by women, for the first time.
- Narrative Nonfiction: Based on extensive archival research, this gripping story reads like a novel, bringing the struggles and triumphs of these medical trailblazers to life.
Review
"Olivia Campbell's Women in White Coats is a lovingly rendered, joyfully expressed history of extraordinary medical women. With a storyteller's flair, Campbell chronicles their struggles, setbacks, and stridently hard-won triumphs across decades and continents. I emerged from the book both humbled and inspired." — Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
"An engrossing portrait of a transformative moment in Victorian medicine, when women doctors demanded the right to heal and be healed. Their battle was collective, and their hard-won triumph is ours. Women in White Coats is a timely reminder of just how many hands it takes to move mountains." — Claire L. Evans, author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
“Campbell's extensive research and lucid writing about medical matters impress. This entertaining account adds a valuable chapter to the history of women and medicine.” — Publishers Weekly
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Order today to get by 7-14 business days
Delivery fee of AED 20. Free for orders above AED 200.
Imported From: United States
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Description:
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.
How did three women defy a world built to exclude them and change medicine forever?
- Pioneering Women: Meet Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Sophia Jex-Blake—three relentless women who defied society to become the first female doctors.
- 19th-Century Medicine: Discover the grim reality of Victorian healthcare, where demeaning examinations and social stigma kept women from receiving life-saving treatment.
- Women's History: Uncover the forgotten story of how women-run hospitals and teaching colleges were built, creating medical care for women, by women, for the first time.
- Narrative Nonfiction: Based on extensive archival research, this gripping story reads like a novel, bringing the struggles and triumphs of these medical trailblazers to life.
Review
"Olivia Campbell's Women in White Coats is a lovingly rendered, joyfully expressed history of extraordinary medical women. With a storyteller's flair, Campbell chronicles their struggles, setbacks, and stridently hard-won triumphs across decades and continents. I emerged from the book both humbled and inspired." — Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
"An engrossing portrait of a transformative moment in Victorian medicine, when women doctors demanded the right to heal and be healed. Their battle was collective, and their hard-won triumph is ours. Women in White Coats is a timely reminder of just how many hands it takes to move mountains." — Claire L. Evans, author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
“Campbell's extensive research and lucid writing about medical matters impress. This entertaining account adds a valuable chapter to the history of women and medicine.” — Publishers Weekly
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