![]() ![]() Like The Doctors Blackwell, her first book, Daughters of the Samurai, was a joint biography of women who were extraordinary for their time - in that case, young Japanese girls who were sent to the United States in the late 1800s to learn Western culture and bring that knowledge back to their home country. ![]() Nimura, who has a master’s in East Asian studies from Columbia, is known for her skill at archival treasure-hunting. But trading hagiography for historical fact is always a worthwhile enterprise, and Nimura’s impressively researched book, which makes liberal use of the subjects’ letters and journals, renders these nineteenth-century groundbreakers as complex, contradictory human beings. Nimura ’01GSAS, Elizabeth Blackwell - the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States - and her younger sister Emily, also a physician, have their feminist legacies slightly tarnished. ![]() In The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women - and Women to Medicine, a new biography by Janice P. History is filled with pioneering figures who, on closer inspection, are found to be seriously flawed. ![]() Elizabeth Blackwell (National Library of Medicine) and Emily Blackwell (New York Academy of Medicine). ![]()
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