Слайд 1Penza State University
Dentistry Department
History Project
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
The
First Women Doctor
Student: Farah Khaled Sadek
Group: 19lc1a
Professor : Tatiana
Gavrilova
Слайд 21-Dr.Elizabeth Blackwell
Year Of Birth/Death : 1821-1910
Medical School: Geneva Medical
College
Geography, location: New York
Career Path: Obstetrics and gynecology
Слайд 32-Elizabeth Inspiration :
Elizabeth Blackwell said she turned to medicine after
a close friend who was dying suggested she would have
been spared her worst suffering if her physician had been a woman
Слайд 43-Biography:
In 1849 she graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College.
Elizabeth
Blackwell became the first woman in America to earn the
M.D. degree.
Слайд 5She supported medical education for women and helped many other
women's careers
In 1857 she offered a practical solution to one
of the problems facing women who were rejected from internships.
Слайд 6She published books on the issue of women in medicine
Examples: Medicine
as a Profession For Women in 1860 and Address on the Medical
Education of Women in 1864.
Слайд 7In her book Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to
Women, published in 1895
She said she had "hated everything connected with
the body, and could not bear the sight of a medical book... My favorite studies were history and metaphysics, and the very thought of dwelling on the physical structure of the body and its various ailments filled me with disgust."
she went into teaching, then considered more suitable for a woman. She claimed that she turned to medicine after a close friend who was dying suggested she would have been spared her worst suffering if her physician had been a woman.
Слайд 8Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821 to Hannah
Lane and Samuel Blackwell.
For financial reasons and her father wanted
to help abolish slavery, the family moved to America when Elizabeth was 11 years old. Her father died in 1838.
Слайд 9
Blackwell had no idea how to become a physician, so
she consulted with several physicians known by her family
She convinced
two physician friends to let her read medicine with them for a year, and applied to all the medical schools in New York and Philadelphia.
She was accepted by Geneva Medical College in western New York state in 1847.
Слайд 10The faculty, assuming that the all-male student body would never
agree to a woman joining their ranks, allowed them to
vote on her admission. As a joke, they voted "yes," and she gained admittance, despite the reluctance of most students and faculty.
Слайд 11Two years later, in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first
woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical
school.
Слайд 12She worked in clinics in London and Paris for two
years
Studied midwifery at La Maternité where she contracted "purulent opthalmia"
from a young patient.
Слайд 13When Blackwell lost sight in one eye, she returned to
New York City in 1851, giving up her dream of
becoming a surgeon.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell established a practice in New York City, but had few patients and few opportunities for intellectual exchange with other physicians
Слайд 14" She applied for a job as physician at the
women's department of a large city dispensary, but was refused.
In 1853 she opened her own dispensary in a single rented room, seeing patients three afternoons a week.
The dispensary was incorporated in 1854 and moved to a small house she bought on 15th Street.
Слайд 15 Her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, joined her in 1856
and, together with Dr. Marie Zakrzewska.
They opened the New
York Infirmary for Women and Children at 64 Bleecker Street in 1857. This institution and its medical college for women (opened 1867) provided training and experience for women doctors and medical care for the poor.
Слайд 16As her health declined, Blackwell gave up the practice of
medicine in the late 1870s, though she still campaigned for
reform.