EMILY DUNNING. A Portrait

by Terry Dunnahoo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1970

Today's liberationist rhetoric and the turn of the century's class-consciousness combine oddly but still inspirationally in the story of Emily Dunning Barringer's fight to study and practice medicine. It centers almost exclusively on her two years as First Woman Ambulance Surgeon (celebrated in the teenage book by Iris Noble), enlisting timely sympathy for the doctor who had to be 'more equal'--if not however for her family's straits on plunging from high society to a one-servant household. Winning first place in intern exams only to be refused a place everyplace fostered the righteous stubbornness that kept Emily going at Gouverneur Hospital. Her schedule on New York City's unsavory Lower East Side was padded with the most and worst cases until survival was strictly a matter of stamina; but the ""Lady doc"" earned respect from her patients, the nurses and ""bus"" drivers, district policemen and residents. Kinky conversation, peppy anecdote, and that long-awaited marriage to Benjamin Barringer romanticize the Portrait of Emily, wife-mother- gynecologist-activist, who not surprisingly ""led a full and satisfying life.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Regnery

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION