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The Doctors Blackwell

How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

by Janice P. Nimura

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The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura

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    Jan 2021, 336 pages

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    Jan 2022, 352 pages

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