Elizabeth Blackwell was one of a number of remarkable women to emerge in the middle of the nineteenth century whose ideas and actions fundamentally changed the status of their sex. Her success in prising open the medical profession for women, on both sides of the Atlantic, has earned her a historical footnote. This book expands that footnote to tell the wider story of a pioneer woman doctor who changed social history.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was one of a number of remarkable women to emerge in the middle of the nineteenth century whose ideas and actions fundamentally changed the status of their sex. Her success in prising open the medical profession for women, on both sides of the Atlantic, has earned her a historical footnote. This book expands that footnote to tell the wider story of a pioneer woman doctor who changed social history.
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