Women in White Coats
Book Feature - Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell
HBL Note: Calling all fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls! I have your next great read. Let me introduce to you WOMEN IN WHITE COATS by Olivia Campbell. This novel couldn’t come at a more appropriate time, after the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who was a champion for women’s healthcare. But before there was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there were three Victorian women who fought to become the first female doctors. Scroll down to read all about WOMEN IN WHITE COATS by Olivia Campbell.
Book Feature - Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell
Book Feature - Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell
From the publisher:
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, Lizzie Garret Anderson and Sophie 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.
Book Feature - Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell
