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Journal Article
Elizabeth Blackwell: breaching the barriers for women in medicine
2021
Overview
When Blackwell was refused posts in male-run hospitals, she founded her own, the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, both to treat the city's poor and provide clinical experience for other female doctors. Medicine seemed an unlikely choice; she “hated everything connected with the body, and could not bear the sight of a medical book”, Blackwell wrote in her autobiography, Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women. [...]Blackwell had more professional success in London, UK, where doctors, led by the surgeon Sir James Paget, welcomed her into every ward at St Bartholomew's Hospital, apart from the department for women since the professor there “entirely disapproved of a lady's studying medicine”. [...]although she devoted her life to treating women and promoting women's health, Blackwell could be, on occasion, critical of women in general. Since she was rejected for posts in New York hospitals, Blackwell raised funds to found her own and what became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children opened in Bleecker Street in 1857.
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Elsevier Ltd,Elsevier Limited
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