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Author: Janice P. Nimura

Janice P. Nimura is the winner of a 2017 Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.
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The Doctors Blackwell How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Janice P. Nimura

“The Doctors Blackwell” Recounts the Journey of the First Woman in Medicine

Janice P. Nimura

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, in 1849. Becoming a doctor as qualified as any man was a noble ideological quest.

“The idea of winning a doctor’s degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle,” she wrote, “and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.”

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