![]() ![]() How did Elizabeth and Emily approach the practice of medicine differently? But what's interesting that you point out is Emily ends up being the better practitioner, a fact that kind of gets lost in history. ![]() ![]() She became more famous than Emily, of course, because she was the first woman doctor. What self-respecting woman would do that, would strive for that? People thought she was either wicked or insane.ĬHANG: (Laughter) Well, Elizabeth becomes the famous Blackwell sister. On top of that, if you went to a medical school well-equipped enough to offer cadavers for dissection, the idea of a woman with her hands in a corpse was also impossible. JANICE NIMURA: The very idea of a woman sitting in a medical lecture hall studying the body in the company of men was appalling. But Elizabeth Blackwell roped in her younger sister Emily into becoming a doctor as well.Īnd Janice Nimura tells the story of their unusual childhood and complicated sisterhood in her new book "The Doctors Blackwell." When we spoke, I asked Nimura what was so offensive back then about a woman studying medicine. And yet, the idea of a female doctor back then was outrageous. Elizabeth Blackwell entered medical school in the 1840s, back when bloodletting, leeches and blistering were common medical treatments. But there was a time when that number was one. These days, women make up just more than half of all medical students in the U.S. ![]()
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