Book Review

To the Ends of the Earth is an encyclopedic history of migration, courage, and frustration in which Bonner recounts the attempts of women to obtain a medical education in Europe and the United States since the late 1840s. While the author, an academic historian, was conducting research on American doctors in European universities before 1914, he “came upon the remarkable number of foreign women, including Americans, who were enrolled in medicine in Zurich, Bern, Paris, and Geneva.” From this serendipitous beginning, he has assembled a detailed, thoroughly annotated, data-rich account of women's struggles to obtain a medical education. The most . . .