Against the Odds the expertise contained in its

the expertise contained in its pages offers a blueprint for best practice and cannot be ignored

joy and the wonder of being in the thick of it

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Tūrangawaewae will excite students to read widely and dig more deeply intellectually

stunning volume would be a memorable Christmas present for any lover of rural life

Against the Odds the expertise contained in itsThe women who battled prejudice and indifference to become doctors In 2025, the year Otago Medical School celebrates 150 years, 50 per cent of graduates are women. Back in 1891, by contrast, when Emily Siedeberg, who would go on to become the schools first woman graduate, applied for entrance it was not at all clear that it would be granted. This book traces the paths of the women who, between the 1890s and 1967, battled indifference and chauvinism