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🗓️ 18 June 2021
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"The problem with most biographies is that the subjects are made out to be god-like. I really wanted to make these three-dimensional characters." Journalist and author Olivia Campbell joins Zibby to discuss her new book, Women in White Coats. Olivia shares the traumatic experiences that inspired her to research the women who changed the world of medicine, and how those same experiences led the earliest female doctors to pursue their careers.
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0:39.6 | Olivia Campbell is the author of Women in White Coats, How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Olivia started |
0:44.7 | writing as a young girl, mysteries fashioned after her beloved Nancy Drew. As a teen, her passion |
0:49.1 | for ballet saw her train to become a professional dancer. A broken foot prompted her to pivot to arts journalism. |
0:56.3 | In college, an unplanned pregnancy, complicated birth, and postpartum depression turned her |
1:01.3 | writing interest from the arts to medicine. Now she's an independent journalist, essayist, |
1:05.5 | an author, focusing on the intersections of medicine, women, history, and nature. Her work has |
1:09.9 | appeared or is forthcoming. In The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Cut, The Washington Post, The medicine, women, history, and nature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming |
1:11.1 | in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Cut, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Self, Aeon, |
1:15.9 | Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Lit Hub, good housekeeping, catapult, parents, and undark |
1:21.8 | among others. Women in White Coates is her first book. She also holds a master's degree |
1:26.6 | in science writing from John |
1:28.4 | Hopkins University and an undergraduate degree in journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University |
1:33.2 | and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers. She currently lives in the |
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