Undaunted, Elizabeth persevered and gained a great ... which became the subject of her doctoral thesis. In April of 1849, Dr. Blackwell crossed the Atlantic to study in the medical meccas of ...

Elizabeth Blackwell faced immense challenges in her quest to become a doctor. Rejected by numerous medical schools due to her gender, she finally gained admission to Geneva Medical College in New ...

A glance at the biography of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and her Cincinnati connection isn’t obvious, but it is there. You can find ...

Women now make up almost half of medical students in the United States and a third of physicians – an accomplishment that can be largely attributed to Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. Share on Pinterest ...

Elizabeth Blackwell (left) in 1847 became the first ... “If I could have been treated by a lady doctor,” the friend confided to Blackwell, “my worst sufferings would have spared me.” ...

Elizabeth Blackwell entered medical school in the 1840s, back when bloodletting, leeches and blistering were common medical treatments. And yet, the idea of a female doctor back then was outrageous.

Biographer Janice Nimura tells the sisters' story in the new book, The Doctors Blackwell. Nimura says Elizabeth was "greeted with everything from rejection to hilarity" during her years at Geneva ...

Despite all these firsts, the remarkable story of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell isn’t particularly well known. Now, historian Janice P. Nimura has written “The Doctors Blackwell: How Two ...

and every female physician in this country -- and every female patient who finds solace in having a woman as her doctor -- owes a tip of the cap to Elizabeth Blackwell. And not only her.

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in February 1821 in England and was the third of nine children. In 1832 her family moved to America when her father’s sugar refinery burned down. Her parents insisted on ...

Nimura, in her enthralling new book, “The Doctors Blackwell,” tells the story of two sisters who became feminist figures almost in spite of themselves. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman ...