Women and Children First: The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D.

by Susan Wilson

In 19th-century America, it was assumed that woman patients would be treated by male doctors. The idea of a ""woman doctor"" was deemed by many to lie somewhere between unfathomable and repugnant. Then along came Susan Dimock. A young North Carolinian who dreamed of becoming a physician, and grew up to practice medicine in Boston, Dimock was not the first American woman to battle the patriarchal medical establishment. But in the 1870s, she was arguably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476692483
• ISBN13: 9781476692487
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"