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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine | Janice P. Nimura

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This was interesting Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman admitted to medical school in the states, her sister Emily followed a few years later. Emily had a harder time being taken seriously and being able to complete her degree. They focused on women‘s health not totally by choice. They opened what would become the first women‘s hospital in NYC.
They had their flaws.
I could used more, not sure what more just more.
Worth the read and time.

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine | Janice P. Nimura

If you‘ve followed me for long you know I love a strong, badass woman and the (white) woman admitted to medical school would fall into that category. The fact that the male students agreed to admit her as a joke and then she was a damned good student and earned the respect of her fellow students and instructors, perfect.
I‘ll probably finish this tomorrow.

LoverOfLearning Sounds like a read me and my bookclub would so enjoy! 1mo

OrangeMooseReads @LoverOfLearning it‘s interesting 1mo

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Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever | Lydia Reeder

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Absolutely fascinating to learn additional medical history from a female trailblazing (and often times ridiculed) account of so many remarkable women medical staff, some patients, and the family and societies that surrounded them.

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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age | Kathleen Sheppard

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A fascinating look into the often forgotten and erased women who helped to build the study of Egyptology into what it is today.

This was so interesting! It covered a lot of time, and several different women who all influenced Egyptology. I really appreciated how the author emphasized the presence of LGBTQ women, & the role all these white women played in the colonialism against Egypt. It was a bit dry, but well worth the read. 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

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Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever | Lydia Reeder

New audiobook from the library in my ears. So far it‘s making me want to 😱 at the patriarchy. But I love the medical history too!

Librarybelle I‘ve wondered about this one. Interested to see what you think of it. 2mo

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Librarybelle I‘ll try to tag you when I review! 2mo

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Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science | Dava Sobel

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I love when the tone of science non-fiction surprises me. I think doing a tandem read with the print and audiobook helped in this case, because matching audio to speed of print reading gave the narrator a consistently clear, yet palpably upbeat tone, and it was wonderful to hear the audiobook narrator skillfully pronounce all the French words and names, along with a smattering of other European/Eastern European designations. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? There is a version of the history told here that is a great deal more fraught in the way it focuses on the many restrictions women faced, the loss of loved ones, the first world war, the growing understanding of the negative effects of exposure to radium and its emissions. Somehow Sobel's account gives these moments their proper weight without in any way sensationalizing or darkening the narrative. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? There is so much about Marie Curie's contributions and the web of interpersonal influence that furthered those contributions to science (and medicine) that I didn't know.
Sobel leaves space for an important function of history: not forgetting. Not forgetting how recently the overwhelming misogyny of the patriarchy had its grip somewhat loosened on so-called enlightened scientific institutions, and how that has affected the history of women 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? in science. Of course, that makes every moment spent in this book discussing Marie and all the women she assisted/came into contact with during her work and all they're remembered for that much more triumphant.
What really struck me as a new piece of information in the picture of her position in history was how much she loved and missed her husband, those moments where in his honour, she deferred/transferred honours that would otherwise have 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? been laid at her feet. Between that and the amount of the book focused on her daughters, the family Curie and to a similar extent, Marie's siblings, are the backbone of the narrative.
I liked the mixing in, the introduction of different (male and female) scientists and their experiments, getting windows into the related science of the time. In that it was often discovering elements and the parts of an atom, it reminded me of 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 How to Make an Apple Pie From Scratch by Harry Cliff. If you want a work that is at least as much science history as it is biography, I highly recommend.
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Singout Thanks for the detailed description and insights. Looks fascinating! 2mo

TheBookHippie Looks amazing! 2mo

Robotswithpersonality @Singout @TheBookHippie Thanks! Hope you enjoy! ☺️ 2mo

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Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science | Dava Sobel

Yikes!...Yeah. 🫤

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Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science | Dava Sobel

“scintillate in green“ Sounds like fun, fancy weekend plans. 💚❇️✨☺️

Scintillate:
1)emit flashes of light; sparkle.
2) Physics
fluoresce momentarily when struck by a photon or charged particle

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Robotswithpersonality

Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science | Dava Sobel