What is Elizabeth Blackwell famous for?

Answer 1

For one thing, she was the first American woman to ever receive a medical degree: she became a doctor in 1849. She devoted her life to helping other women to gain an education and to become more informed about health-related issues. She founded the New York Infirmary in 1857, a school where women could get the medical training that other schools refused to give them (most colleges back then still denied women admission). In addition to training women to become doctors, she and the staff at her hospital gave medical treatment to those who were too poor to pay for it. Elizabeth Blackwell also published several important books, including Medicine as a Profession For Women in 1860 and Address on the Medical Education of Women in 1864.

Answer 2

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. (Her family emigrated from England when she was a child.) She was a Quaker and her parents thought boys and girls she be equally educated. She was anti-slavery during the American Civil War. There is a junior high school named after her in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York. (Elizabeth Blackwell JHS 110)

Answer 3

She was the first female to get a medical degree

Answer 4

She was the first woman to attend medical school in the United States.