Dr elizabeth blackwell biography books

          From the Barnard Biography Series celebrating "heroic women" comes this well-researched biography focusing on the first woman doctor in America.

        1. Books: Blackwell, Elizabeth.
        2. A biography of a strong and dedicated woman who successfully worked for the recognition of women in the field of medicine in both the United States and Great.
        3. Elizabeth Blackwell was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom.
        4. Blackwell was the first woman ever to attend medical college.

          5. A biography of a strong and dedicated woman who successfully worked for the recognition of women in the field of medicine in both the United States and Great....

          Biography: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

          When she graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College, in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to earn the M.D.

          degree. She supported medical education for women and helped many other women's careers. By establishing the New York Infirmary in 1857, she offered a practical solution to one of the problems facing women who were rejected from internships elsewhere but determined to expand their skills as physicians.

          The life story of Elizabeth Blackwell, one of the first woman doctors in the Unites States, who worked in England and America to open the field of medicine to.

          She also published several important books on the issue of women in medicine, including Medicine as a Profession For Women in 1860 and Address on the Medical Education of Women in 1864.

          Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821, to Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell.

          Both for financial reasons and because her father wanted to help abolish slavery, the family moved to America when Elizabeth was 11 years old. Her father died in 1838. As adults, his children campaigned for women's rights and suppor