Women in White Coats, Olivia Campbell
Women in White Coats, Olivia Campbell
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Women in White Coats
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

Author: Olivia Campbell

Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

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.

About Olivia Campbell

Olivia Campbell is the New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats. An accomplished journalist and essayist, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, New York Magazine, HISTORY, and The Guardian, among others. She is an editor at Dotdash Meredith and a thesis advisor for Johns Hopkins University’s science writing program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Olivia on March 01, 2021

I think I wrote a good book!......more

2.5 stars I have mixed feelings about this book, which has a fascinating topic, women breaking into the medical profession in the 19th century U.S. and U.K., but which is not particularly well-written or well-sourced. This is a group biography of three medical pioneers: Elizabeth Blackwell, the first......more

Goodreads review by Pat on October 26, 2022

Non fiction This was an extraordinary book, detailing the unimaginable hurdles placed before women who wanted to become doctors in the mid to late 19th century in both America and the UK. The sheer determination and courage displayed by these pioneering women cannot be overstated. The author did a ma......more

Goodreads review by "Avonna on June 23, 2022

WOMEN IN WHITE COATS: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell is a historical biography which follows the lives of three Victorian women who fight to earn MDs from universities in the early 1800’s. This book follows Elizabeth Blackwell MD, Elizabeth Garrett Anders......more

Goodreads review by Steve on November 14, 2020

Excellent look at the struggle of the first women doctors I loved this book. It is written in a conversational tone and I found the book inspirational. Although there is some medical information in the book, the book is more about the women’s struggles. However, what medicine is discussed is explaine......more