Medical Women
Medical Women

Author: Sophia Jex-Blake

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 200

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This book contains two essays written by Sophia Jex-Blake. She was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. Jex-Blake led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland, and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. A leading campaigner for medical education for women, she was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh, at a time when no other medical schools were training women.

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell

Publisher:

Published: 1895

Total Pages: 290

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Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.