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

Description: The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of womens rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now." Author Biography Janice P. Nimura is the winner of a 2017 Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the author of the New York Times bestselling The Doctors Blackwell and Daughters of the Samurai, a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City. Review "Enthralling…Nimura, by digging into [the Blackwells] deeds and their lives, finds those discrepancies and idiosyncrasies that yield a memorable portrait. The Doctors Blackwell also opens up a sense of possibility — you dont always have to mean well on all fronts in order to do a lot of good." -- Jennifer Szalai - New York Times"[A] richly detailed and propulsive biography….Nimura doesnt strain to fit the sisters into the narrow shape allowed to feminist pioneers, as either virtuous role models or "badass" rebels against society. Instead, they emerge as spiky, complicated human beings, who strove and stumbled toward an extraordinary achievement, and then had to learn what to do with it." -- Joanna Scutts - New York Times Book Review"Ms. Nimuras portrait of the Blackwells America blazes with hallucinatory energy. Its a rough-hewn, gaudy, carnival-barking America, with only the thinnest veneer of gentility overlaying cruelty and a simmering violence. Its an America yearning for relief from disease, besotted with séances and spiritualism, quack cures and phrenology; a deeply divided America, with bloody fissures between rich and poor, North and South, city and countryside." -- Donna Rifkind - Wall Street Journal"The Doctors Blackwell is best on the fascinating and harrowing history of modern medicine….[Nimura] is a close and delightful observer of [the Blackwells] world." -- Casey Cep - The New Yorker"Even if you know who Elizabeth Blackwell is — the first woman to receive an MD in the United States — you may not know her sister Emilys name. Nimura (Daughters of the Samurai) examines Emily Blackwells brilliance, and how the sisters achievements and (at times contentious) partnership changed the landscape of American medicine for good." -- Bethanne Patrick - Washington Post"Nimura seamlessly weaves these strands of medical and American history by focusing on the lives of these two self-made women. With an eye to the telling detail, she animates their ambitions, medical training in Europe, family life and friendships with Florence Nightingale, Lucy Stone, Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, Lady Byron and many other contemporaries." -- Wingate Packard - The Seattle Times"The meticulously researched narrative — informed by newspaper reports, journal entries, and a staggering volume of letters — offers an intimate look at the close-knit, high-minded Blackwell family, including Elizabeths younger sister Emily, who followed in Elizabeths medical footsteps….Nimura tells the kind of nuanced tale that people like to hear." -- Jennifer Latson - Boston Globe"The Doctors Blackwell not only testifies to Elizabeth and Emilys iron determination but also chronicles evolving medical practices. Nimura places the sisters within the broad intellectual context of their time, creating an important and engaging history lesson." -- Martha Anne Toll - NPR"A fascinating dual biography that restores the two sisters to their rightful place in U.S. history and illuminates a period riven like our own with bitter disagreements over race, public health and medicine, and the role of women in society….Nimura shoehorns a lot of history into this carefully researched, briskly paced narrative of the sisters lives." -- Ann Levin - USA Today"Nimuras vivid, assiduously researched account reads like a novel." -- Oprah Magazine"This nonfiction story of the first hospital staffed entirely by women could not be more timely." -- Seija Rankin - Entertainment Weekly"Nimura writes fluidly, and her book is an engaging and meticulously documented guide not only to the sisters lives but also to the medical practices of their time. We hear about obsolete medical treatments (intravaginal leeches), student ingenuity (stuffing medical textbooks under clothes to avoid paying taxes) and New York trivia (the Blackwells infirmary on Bleecker Street was a former Roosevelt residence). But the greater part of Nimuras achievement lies in how she brings new life to the story of two extraordinary and idiosyncratic physicians who forever changed the medical profession." -- Danielle Ofri - American Scholar"A detailed story of hard work, determination and evolving goals." -- Katherine A. Powers - Minneapolis Star Tribune Review Quote "With the fiercely intelligent, prickly sisters at the center, Nimuras engrossing and enlightening group biography is highly recommended." Details ISBN1324020202 Author Janice P. Nimura Short Title The Doctors Blackwell Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1324020202 ISBN-13 9781324020202 Format Paperback Subtitle How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Country of Publication United States Publisher WW Norton & Co Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Pages 352 Publication Date 2022-03-11 AU Release Date 2022-03-11 NZ Release Date 2022-03-11 US Release Date 2022-03-11 UK Release Date 2022-03-11 Illustrations 28 illustrations Alternative 9780393635546 DEWEY B Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139425239;

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