After that, the doctor reinserted the tool and repeated the procedure on the other side. A doctor would push the metrotome into a woman’s uterus, press the handle, and release the blade when he pulled it out, it cut through one side of her cervix. A switchblade of sorts, it was once used to treat fertility issues. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now.A metrotome sounds like a more pleasant device than it is. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women's rights-or with each other. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women.
Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."Įxploring the sisters' allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.Įxploring the sisters' allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P.
In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." -Stacy SchiffĮlizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood.
Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
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