Explore the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell. Photographs, a timeline, and easy-to-read text tell the story of America's first woman doctor.
Presents the career of Elizabeth Blackwell stressing the problems she had to overcome to be a doctor, an all-male profession in the mid-nineteenth century.
Women physician who founded the first hospital for women run by women. Blackwell trained nurses during the Civil War. Educated people in the "refvolutionary" ideas of cleanliness and exercise for good health.