Mar
3
12:30am
The Doctors Blackwell
By The Mercantile Library
Join us for an evening with Janice Nimura, in conversation with Kimberly Hamlin as they discuss Nimura’s critically acclaimed book, The Doctors Blackwell.
About The Doctors Blackwell: The world recoiled at the notion of a woman doctor, yet Elizabeth Blackwell persisted―in 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an MD. Her achievement made her an icon―“I am convinced that a new & nobler era is dawning, for Medicine,” she wrote―but her sister Emily, eternally eclipsed, was the more brilliant physician. Together they founded the first hospital staffed entirely by women, in New York City.
(The Blackwell family moved to Cincinnati in 1838, and Henry Blackwell, brother of Elizabeth and Emily, was a member of The Mercantile Library).
Janice P. Nimura received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on The Doctors Blackwell. Her previous book, Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, was a New York Times Notable book in 2015. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, The Rumpus, and LitHub, among other publications.
Kimberly A. Hamlin, PhD is Associate Professor of History at Miami University. A recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholar Award, Hamlin regularly contributes to the Washington Post and lectures across the country. She is the author of FreeThinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener and From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America. Hamlin delivered the Library's 2020 Annual Meeting Lecture.
Copies of The Doctors Blackwell can be ordered online via Joseph-Beth Cincinnati.
This program is free and open to the public.
hosted by
The Mercantile Library
share