Min+Jung+C.+-+I+am+Elizabeth+Blackwell

My "I am" project person is Elizabeth Blackwell. I was interested in her by the fact that she was the first woman doctor and fought for women's rights. I wanted to find out more about her because I liked the way she achieved her goal. I didn't know anything about her and I've never heard of her before I started this project, which is also why I wanted to research more about her. I want more people to know about her achievements and respect them.

As a woman, she had many disadventages compared to men, but still achieved her goal, which seemed impossible at that time. I have found about her background information. Her family, unlike other families, provided her with equal education as the boys got. She had private tutors and attended private schools. Even though this life ended after her father's death, she still managed to open a private school in US with her sisters and mother. She secretely read books about women's health and medicine when she was a teacher. Later, she applied to several medical schools and was accepted at Geneva Medical School and successfully graduated, even under pressure and other students' mockery. She later opened an infirmary specifivally for women and children. This was to provide more comfortable place for women to get examined. Also, Elizabeth Blackwell opened a medical college for women, which helped and supported huge number of women who wanted to become a doctor. Elizabeth herself was a professor of the college. As a woman, she achieved tons of goals that most people thought were useless and impossible.


 * What made Elizabeth Blackwell so determined when everyone thought it was impossible to become a woman doctor?**

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 * [|Elizabeth Blackwell documents]
 * [|Elizabeth Blackwell primary documents (Pictures of Letters and more)]
 * [|Elizabeth Blackwell Medical School]
 * "It is not easy to be a pioneer -- but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world."
 * "A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel."

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