the doctors blackwell by janice p nimura

Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of W.W. Have we made progress in our ability to accept and embrace powerful or pioneering women?.If you read one of these inspirational stories as a child, how was it different from The Doctors Blackwell? What do the children's versions leave out, and why? The Blackwell story is easiest to find on the children's biography shelf, with Elizabeth often depicted as a slim, attractive young woman with a stethoscope, leaning solicitously over a grateful patient.How have the challenges faced by women doctors changed over time? Which issues, in the present, would surprise the Blackwell sisters, and which would they recognize from their own lives?.Yet comparatively few people are familiar with the Blackwell story today. The Blackwells interacted, sometimes intimately,with some of the most famous figures of their day: Florence Nightingale, Henry Ward Beecher, Lucy Stone, William Lloyd Garrison, Lady Byron, Henry Whitney Bellows, even Abraham Lincoln.What did you find most startling about the Blackwells' medical training-and which of our techniques will seem quaint or barbaric in the future? Nineteenth-century medicine looked very different from modern practice, but like today the pace of innovation was rapid.How did the Blackwell sisters feel about women's rights, or other women in general?.How did Emily's ideas about the role of a female physician diverge from Elizabeth's?.What were the origins of Elizabeth's interest in the newborn field of public health?.None of the five Blackwell sisters married, while their brothers chose strikingly independent women as partners.Which sister, Elizabeth or Emily, resonated more strongly with you? Why?.

The doctors blackwell by janice p nimura