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Author Affiliation: Marist School, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA This is a photograph of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910), an Anglo-American physician who helped open the medical profession to women in the United States (Figure). Born in Bristol, England, she emigrated with her family to New York, New York, USA, in 1832 and later settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where financial hardship after her father's death led her and her sisters to support themselves through teaching.
Raised in an abolitionist and reform-minded household, she resolved to pursue medicine despite widespread opposition. Blackwell was rejected by numerous medical schools because she was a woman before Geneva Medical College admitted her in 1847, after the faculty submitted her application to the all-male student body for a vote.
The students, reportedly believing the proposal to be a jest, voted unanimously to accept her.
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