The Doctors Blackwell
How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell were not typical of women living in the mid-1800's. They grew up in an educated family of open minded thinkers well-versed in the issues of the day. All the Blackwells were ardent abolitionists. Elizabeth, the older of the two sisters, knew she had the capacity to becom......more

While the focus of this book is on the two Blackwell sisters who became the first women to receive medical degrees in the United States, it also touches on a lot of what was going on in their world, nineteenth-century United States and Europe. The reader will meet many of the movers and shakers of t......more

What distinguishes this book from other non-fiction historical accounts is the marriage of readability and meticulous documentation. The author manages deft storytelling to make the reader wonder, "how will this ever work out," a neat trick when the outline of the sisters' achievements is well known......more

It took fierceness and a big ego to face down the male-dominated world that Elizabeth Blackwell found herself in when she decided she could do anything they could do. And she, herself, needed a backup support. Luckily she had Emily, her sister. Between them they would change the world I live in. And......more

An excellent biography of two trailblazing female doctors, who earned their M.D.’s in the mid-19th century—and were also sisters. Elizabeth Blackwell is somewhat well-known as the U.S.’s “first” female doctor (which isn’t really true, the medical profession being entirely unregulated at the time and......more