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

New York Times Bestseller

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first wo...