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Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was an English-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. [1]
Prior to 1847 when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to enroll in a United States medical school by entering the Geneva Medical College. Many women, such as Harriot Kezia Hunt, had served as family physicians, but women were denied attendance at medical lectures and examinations. Blackwell set a new standard for women everywhere ...
Book written by Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell. Emily Blackwell (October 8, 1826 – September 7, 1910) was a trailblazer in the 19th century, making numerous contributions in the field of medicine and women's rights.
Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Edwards Walker. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2006. ISBN 1-59935-028-9 OCLC 71241973; LeClair, Mary K., Justin D. White, and Susan Keeter. Three 19th-Century Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Walker, Sarah Loguen Fraser. Syracuse, NY: Hofmann, 2007. ISBN 0-9700519-3-X OCLC 156809843
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), an immigrant from England, graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York at the head of her class and thus became the first female doctor in America.
Hospitalized women are less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital if they are treated by female doctors, a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found.. In the study ...