01772nam a2200289 a 450000100060000000300080000600500170001400800410003102000180007203500190009004000660010904100130017508200220018810000320021024501060024226000350034830000210038350000640040452007700046860000290123865000380126765100430130565100390134865500330138770000290142070000330144963184BD-RjUL20211209081152.0170128s2008    enk           000 1 eng d  a9781846880643  a(BD-RjUL)63312  aUKMcUKMdBTCTAdBD-RjULdCUSdBWKUKdBWKdUPPdOBEdDLCbeng1 aenghjpn  a895.635bWAB 20081 aWatanabe, Junʼichi,d1933-10aBeyond the blossoming fields /cJunʼichi Watanabe ; translated by Deborah Iwabuchi and Anna Isozaki.  aRichmond, U.K. :bAlma,c2008.  a313 p. ;c22 cm.  aOriginally published: Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1970.  aAs a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhea from her husband, she suffers the disgrace of divorce. Forced to bear the humiliation of being treated by male doctors, she resolves to become a doctor herself in order to treat fellow female sufferers and spare them some of the shame she had to endure. Her struggle is not an easy one--her family disowns her, and she has to convince the authorities to take seriously the very idea of a female doctor and allow her to study alongside male medical students and take the licensing exam. Based on the real-life story of Ginko Ogino--Japan's first female doctor.--From publisher description.10aOgino, Ginko,d1851-1913 0aWomen physicianszJapanvFiction. 0aJapanxHistoryy19th centuryvFiction. 0aJapanxSocial conditionsvFiction. 7aBiographical fiction.2gsafd1 aIwabuchi, Deborah Stuhr.1 aIsozaki, Anna Husson,d1968-