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Who says women can’t be doctors? : the story of Elizabeth Blackwell
by Tanya Lee Stone
An introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.
Journal Articles
Morantz-Sanchez, R. (1992). Feminist theory and historical practice: rereading Elizabeth Blackwell. History And Theory, (4), 51.
Fee, E., Brown, T. M., Lazarus, J., & Theerman, P. (2002). Medical Education for Women, 1870. American Journal Of Public Health, 92(3), 363.
The article celebrates the competence and dedication of the first generations of women medical students. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton created the Women’s National Suffrage Association and launched the feminist journal “Revolution.” It describes the 1870 cover from “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,” a well-known New York City reform newspaper. It reveals the number of trained women doctors in the U.S., according to the census of 1870. The large majority of women doctors were practitioners of homeopathic, eclectic, or botanical medicine.
T. E. C., J. (1984). ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, A PIONEER AMERICAN WOMAN PHYSICIAN, DEVELOPS PURULENT OPHTHALMIA FROM AN INFECTED INFANT. Pediatrics, 74(1), 57.
Describes how Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in the United States, developed purulent ophthalmia from an infected infant. Treatment and course of the disease.
Grace, P. (1991). First among women. BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition), 303(6817), 1582.
Focuses on the life and works of the first woman physician Elizabeth Blackwell. Educational background of Blackwell; Family background of the physician; Determination to practice medicine.