Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell When she graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College, in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to earn the M.D. degree. She supported medical education for women and helped many other women's careers. She also published several important books on the issue of women in medicine. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821, to Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell.
They include the work of the suffragettes’ who caused chaos and grabbed the spotlight away from the suffragists’ after a group of women decided it was time to make a militant stand. Also woman’s work war work was a massive contribution to them gaining the vote, it showed that woman could work just as well as the men could and respect was gained. Women worked on the front line as bearers for the injured soldiers, this showed tremendous bravery and strength they also worked in the medical areas helping men recover or heal from their injuries. Finally the changing attitudes of the government and society helped women with their stand, the women’s persistence was important, they showed heart and character in continuing to maintain their support, time and effort to gain
Was she that big of a threat? The answer to all of this I feel is, no. The woman was a dental hygienist, proud mother, and a member of a loving family, does that sound like someone who might be a possible terrorist? On October 10, the Washington Post, printed an article stating, “Miriam Carrey didn’t have to die. Police need better training in mental illness”.
In this present day many nurses have indeed contributed to modern medicine like Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it available to woman in the 1800s although she faced many challenges she did not give up until it was legalised and women had access to birth control. This has made life much easier for women nowadays to plan they futures before having children and preventing children been born with diseasesand unwanted pregnancies can be avoided instead of having abortions. People may not agree with the way Margaret went about it and may say she was racist but all races today use birth control pills. Margaret Sanger was born in 1879 in Corning, New York.
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Born in Oswego, New York on November 26, 1832, Mary Edwards Walker was raised in an abolitionist family. Her father was a country doctor who believed in equality and education for his five daughters, Mary, Aurora, Cynthia, Luna and Vesta. He was also against the woman's clothes that didn't really help with the work they did every day. Mary was an early enthusiast for Women's Rights, and she went all out against women's clothing. She got rid of the restrictive clothing and in her later years, wore men's clothing when she lectured about Women's Rights.
Not only did Blackwell have a governess but also a private tutors to held aide in her intellectual development. The idea to pursue medical school came to Blackwell when her friend who was dying said that in her opinion that a female physician would have made her treatments more comfortable. In 1845 Blackwell began perusing medical school but she didn’t know where it would be or how she would pay for it. So Elizabeth took a job teaching at a music academy in Asheville, NC with the goal of saving the $3000 needed for Medical School. While trying to gain entry to medical school many Physicians told her to either go to Paris or disguise herself as a man.
Lillian D. Wald was born on March 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. A firm believer in nonviolence, she helped lead the first women peace march in 1914.She was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing. Lillian Wald was from a German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio, (her father was an ophthalmic merchant). In 1878, she moved with her family to Rochester, New York where she attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies; upon graduation she tried to enter Vassar College but was repudiated, as the school thought she was too young at 16. In 1889, she joined New York Hospital's School
She went to medical school in the early 1960's and persevered against the sexism and racism to graduate and become an ophthalmologist, surgeon, and patients' rights activist. Dr. Bath was the first African American female surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. In the early 1980's she received a patent for a medical invention making her the first African American female doctor to do so. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for removing cataracts.
By 1858 Florence nightingale a English nurse known as the lady of lamp Changed the face of nursing from a mostly untrained profession to a highly skilled and well respected medical profession. Making her the mother of modern nursing, Florence nightingale then went onto training nurses and eventually sent 5 of her best trained nurses commonly known as Lucy Osborn, Mary
Even with these great accomplishments she had not achieved her greatest desire, which was to open a training school for nurses. In 1860, Florence's dream was finally realized when the Nightingale Training School for Nurses opened. This was the first fully organized training program for nurses. Graduates of the