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Bezig met laden... Samantha's droom (1983)door Barbara Wood
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fascinating story of a girl who, through many struggles, becomes a doctor in the latter half of the 19th century, when medicine was just emerging from its primitiveness. The story takes us from the slums of London, where we meet Samantha, daughter of a zealous Christian preacher, and takes us to New York City, Upstate New York, where she attends medical college, finally to San Francisco, where she opens a charity hospital with the help of her well-heeled friends, and "muckrakes" against patent medicine, all opium-laced, the scourge of Victorian women. We get a sense of what it must have been like for a woman at that time, the prejudices one would have had to overcome, and the development of modern medical techniques. Story was fast-moving and always interesting and informative. "Domina" was her title as a female doctor, written on her diploma. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Set in London, New York, and San Francisco from the late nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, Domina is the inspiring saga of one woman's personal and professional triumph against the prejudices of her time. Beautiful and courageous, Samantha Hargrave dares to dream that she will become one of the first female doctors -- and surgeons -- in America. Born in the slums of London and possessing a special gift for healing, Samantha struggles to enter the all-male medical profession. When her ambition encounters hostile rejection in England, she sails to America, where she meets an eccentric doctor who takes her on as an apprentice. But at the high-profile Astor Ball in New York, Samantha is introduced to the second of the three men who will change her life forever -- and love just might interfere with her ambition. Acclaimed novelist Barbara Wood reveals her remarkable talent by capturing Samantha's indomitable spirit, making Domina a literary triumph. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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She also has her share of happiness and heartaches along the way, and you'll be rooting for her to have the happy ending she deserves. ( )