Watanabe, Junʼichi 1933- creator Iwabuchi, Deborah Stuhr. Isozaki, Anna Husson 1968- text Biographical fiction. enk Richmond, U.K Alma 2008 monographic eng jpn

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313 p. ; 22 cm. 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. Junʼichi Watanabe ; translated by Deborah Iwabuchi and Anna Isozaki. Originally published: Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1970. Ogino, Ginko 1851-1913 Women physicians Japan Fiction Japan History 19th century Fiction Japan Social conditions Fiction 895.635 WAB 2008 9781846880643 UKM 170128 20211209081152.0 63184 eng