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Women in white coats : : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine
| Title | Women in white coats : : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine |
| Names | Campbell, Olivia M. |
| Douglass, Jean Ann, narrator. |
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| Book Number | DB112026 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | "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." -- Provided by publisher. Commercial audiobook. |
| Local Subject | Female Narrator - FN |
| Female Author - FMA | |
| Adult Book - ADB | |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| Adult Reading Level - AD | |
| Short Book - SH | |
| Commercial Audiobook - CAB | |
| Biography & Autobiography - BIO | |
| Biography - Notable Women - BIW | |
| Medicine & Health - MED | |
| History - HST | |
| History - 19th Century - HIS19 | |
| Great Britain - GREBR | |
| LC Subject | Medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Women physicians - Great Britain - Biography |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Biographies |
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| Notes | ENG |
| Unrated. NLS/BPD |
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| Call Number | 610.922 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2021 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2021 |
| Original Publication | Reissue of: Unabridged [New York] : Harlequin Audio, 2021. 9781488210778 |