Elizabeth Blackwell was born 205 years ago today. The first woman to earn a modern medical degree, she was also responsible for constructing the first institutions that allowed women to gain experience in the medical field.
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Founder’s Curse: The Hard Rise and Long Fall of Elizabeth Blackwell, the First Woman MD
The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the world’s first woman to earn a medical degree, can be divided into two roughly equal parts: four decades of being attentively reviled, followed by ...
