A GOOGLE Doodle is honouring Elizabeth Blackwell, a female pioneer who helped open the way for women to enter the world of medicine. Here is how she changed the medical profession’s perceptio… ...

Elizabeth Blackwell’s name is synonymous with breaking barriers and paving the way for women in the field of medicine. As the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, her ...

Blackwell passed away in May 1910, and as a testament to her legacy, a year after her death there were 500 female physicians registered across the United Kingdom. Learn Something New Every Day ...

Elizabeth Blackwell (left) in 1847 became the first woman admitted to a modern medical school. By 1949, all-woman teams performed surgery (right). Alamy; Getty Images Elizabeth Blackwell had an ...

Most often remembered as the first American woman to receive an M.D. degree, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell worked tirelessly to secure equality for all members of the medical profession.

In “The Doctors Blackwell,” Janice P. Nimura tells the story of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, physicians who became feminist figures almost in spite of themselves.

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree. Her sister Emily was the third woman to do so. Their story is told in riveting detail by Janice P. Nimura ...

Elizabeth Blackwell was a pioneer of women in medicine. Bettmann/CORBIS. If success is the best revenge, then America’s first formally accredited female doctor, who was nearly laughed out of ...

1 of 8 | On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell, pictured sometime between 1850 and 1860, became the first woman in U.S. history to receive a medical degree.