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
    1850 studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London)
    1858 was registered in Medical Register of the United Kingdom
    worked for/at Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary

    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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