Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to WomenBlackwell, Elizabeth
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Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910; Women physicians -- United States -- Biography
_Criticism of Gronlund’s Co-operative Commonwealth_; given
before the Fellowship of the New Life, 1888.
_A Medical Treatise on the Corruption of Neo-Malthusianism_,
1888.
_Christian Duty in regard to Vice_; a letter to the
International Congress, 1889.
_Christianity a Battle, not a Dream_; given before the
Christo-Theosophical Society.
_Erroneous Method in Medical Education_; Counsel to the
Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 1892.
PUBLICATIONS
_The Moral Education of the Young._ (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
_The Human Element in Sex_; a Medical Work. (J. & A.
Churchill.)
_Christianity in Medicine_; published in ‘Things to Come.’
(Elliot Stock.)
_The Influence of Women in Medicine_; an Address to the
Graduates of the London School of Medicine for Women. (Bell
& Sons.)
_Why Hygienic Congresses fail._ (Bell & Sons.)
_The Religion of Health_; republished by the M. R. Union,
2 Leinster Place, W.
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
FOOTNOTES
[1] A term then applied in the West to those who were
dissatisfied with every phase of our social life; they were
generally noticeable for their long hair and peculiar mode
of dressing.
[2] The popular name for the Democratic as opposed to the
Republican candidate.
[3] I was then very shy, and much annoyed by such public
notices as the following:—
‘A very notable event of the year 1848 was the appearance
at the medical lectures of a young woman student named
Blackwell. She is a pretty little specimen of the feminine
gender, said the Boston _Medical Journal_, reporting her
age at twenty-six. She comes into the class with great
composure, takes off her bonnet and puts it under the
seat, exposing a fine phrenology. The effect on the class
has been good, and great decorum is observed while she is
present. The sprightly Baltimore _Sun_ remarked that she
should confine her practice, when admitted, to diseases of
the heart.’—_Springfield Republican._
[4] See Appendix I.
[5] See Appendix II.
[6] I was at that time utterly unaware of the amount of
degrading cruelty perpetrated by many foreign investigators
upon helpless animals under methods erroneously called
scientific. It required the extended observation of the
physician to realise the intellectual fallacy necessarily
involved in experiments which destroy the thing to be
observed; and also to recognise how the constant promulgation
of false theory and practice arising from erroneous methods
of investigation hinders the attainment of scientific
medicine.
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