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Episode 12: (HISTORY) Sister Medical Pioneers

Episode 12: (HISTORY) Sister Medical Pioneers

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Today's Marcia Mini is about two sisters who faced gender equality obstacles during 19th century head on. They achieved a series of near-impossible feats to become America's first and third certified women medical doctors. This episode reveals how the Blackwell sisters broke into medicine and changed it forever.

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Resources:

Music & Sound effects from pixabay.com & zapsplat.com

The Blackwell sisters and The harrowing history of modern medicine. The New Yorker.

The Way Americans Remember the Blackwell Sisters Shortchanges Their Legacy. Smithsonian Magazine.

Who were the Blackwell Sisters. Musem of Science.

Emily Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell. Wikipedia.

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