As 19th Century Females, Sisters In ‘The Doctors Blackwell’ Achieve Many Firsts

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice P. Nimura

Historian Janice P. Nimura tells the story of America’s first and third certified women doctors and the role these sisters played in building medical institutions.

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