Examines the life of the first female doctor in the United States, who worked to open the field of medicine to women.
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Grade 4-6-- Schleichert portrays these two women realistically and objectively. Her writing style is lively without being adulatory; fictionalization is kept to a minimum and is neither intrusive nor distracting. Both volumes begin with turning points in the women's careers, and then give chronological biographies. The accounts are informative and provide a historical perspective by including facts about the times in which they lived. Attractive black-and-white pencil drawings complement the texts. Rather than emerging as saints, both women are made to seem even more remarkable when shown in the context of very real lives filled with frustration, determination, and human frailty. --Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell by Elizabeth Schleichert (Illustrated by Antonio Castro)(Hardcover),
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This review is from: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell (Pioneers in Health and Medicine) (Library Binding)
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America's first female physician, Elizabeth Blackwell brought to her profession a revolutionary view of medical practice and education. Her career is a series of notable "first": she opened the first hospital staffed by women physicians and the first woman's medical college. Equally important, Blackwell redefined the scope of health care and worked to create a medical community responsive to the needs of women, children, minority groups, and the poor. The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell chronicles a difficult and lonely struggle: the struggle of a pioneering woman to make a place for women in the medical profession. Part of the 'Pioneers in Health and Medicine' series from Twenty-First Century Books (a division of Henry Holt and Co.)
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