01952nam a2200337 a 4500 63184 BD-RjUL 20211209081152.0 170128s2008 enk 000 1 eng d 9781846880643 (BD-RjUL)63312 UKM UKM BTCTA BD-RjUL CUS BWKUK BWK UPP OBE DLC eng eng jpn 895.635 WAB 2008 Watanabe, Junʼichi, 1933- 188034 Beyond the blossoming fields / Junʼichi Watanabe ; translated by Deborah Iwabuchi and Anna Isozaki. Richmond, U.K. : Alma, 2008. 313 p. ; 22 cm. Originally published: Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1970. As 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. Ogino, Ginko, 1851-1913 188035 Women physicians Japan Fiction. 188036 Japan History 19th century Fiction. 188037 Japan Social conditions Fiction. 187654 Biographical fiction. gsafd 188043 Iwabuchi, Deborah Stuhr. 188039 Isozaki, Anna Husson, 1968- 188040 ddc BK 63184 63184 0 0 ddc 0 1 FIC RUCL RUCL Reading 2009-04-02 Japanese literature, 0 895.635 WAB 2008 2017-01-28 00:00:00 C-1 2017-01-28 BK