"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...

"In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive an M.D., followed soon after by her equally brilliant sister, Emily. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of women studying medicine, the sisters' intelligence and intensity ultimately won them the acceptance of the male medical establishment and exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine." -- cover.