![]() ![]() They co-founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, a medical school for women. Nimura’s book, based on deep archival research, follows Elizabeth Blackwell’s medical career and collaboration with her sister, Emily Blackwell (1828-1910). ![]() Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), however, has been recognized by many historians as the one who blazed the trail.īefore achieving the degree of medical doctor in the US, Elizabeth Blackwell lamented: “I wish I could devise some good way of maintaining myself but the restrictions which confine my dear sex render all my aspirations useless.” Blackwell, a small, young, shy, “simply dressed” lady with a “gentle manner,” persistently pursued her aspirations. Much less has been written on women physicians in Europe and Asia, but the Italian universities admitted women to study and teach medicine beginning in the fourteenth century. ![]() Book review: The Doctors Blackwell July 15, 2021Įdith Lutzker celebrated the centennial anniversary of the struggle of five British heroines in her 1969 groundbreaking book Woman Gain A Place in Medicine. ![]()
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