It was at this stalled moment that a terminally ill friend planted the seed of an idea. Their achievements, including the foundation of the first hospital run by and for women, are enshrined in American history.īut in 1845, before Elizabeth became an icon, she was a bored and frustrated 24-year-old, teaching to help support her mother and eight siblings in Cincinnati. Her sister Emily joined her in that distinction in 1854. The world knows Elizabeth Blackwell as the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, in 1849. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2: “Betweenity” of Janice P. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. She had never wanted to be a man-she wanted, as a woman, to enjoy the same level of respect and freedom men took for granted. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, in 1849.
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