persons Blackwell, Elizabeth

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Name Blackwell, Elizabeth
Alternative Names
ID 3160
Gender female
Lifespan 1821-02-03 - 1910-05-31
Professions physician
Collection(s)
  • Narratives of Encounters in the North Atlantic Triangle
  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/3160/
    https://d-nb.info/gnd/119222965
    Notes Blackwell was the first woman to attend medical school in 1847 and receive a medical degree in the US in 1849.
    References Birkle, Carmen. „Capitals of Medicine: North American Medical Women and Their Encounters with Europe (1850s-1930s).“ Narratives of Encounter. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2015, 85-105.

    Relations

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1847-10 1849-01-23 studied medicine at Geneva Medical College, New York
    1849-06 studied medicine at Maternité de Paris, Port-Royal
    worked for/at Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary
    1850 studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London)
    1858 was registered in Medical Register of the United Kingdom

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    related >> was influenced by Nightingale, Florence
    related >> was influenced by Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
    related >> collaborated with >> colleague of Jacobi, Mary Putnam
    related >> was influenced by >> was/were influenced and supported by Louis, Pierre-Charles-Alexandre

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1821-02-03 related >> born in Bristol
    related >> visited >> regularly visited England
    1832 related >> emigrated to New York, NY
    1851 related >> returned to New York, NY
    1849 1851 related >> stayed in >> stayed in for medical education Europe

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