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The doctors blackwell book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Elizabeth handled herself with such dignity and decorum that by the time she had received her degree in 1849 - the first woman in America to do so - she had won over both professors and students.Įventually, after a more difficult journey, Emily received her medical degree in 1854. The decision whether to admit her was left to the 113 (male) students in the expectation that they would veto it, but, seeing it as ludicrous and a great joke, the high-spirited young men voted her in. The idea of women studying the human body was considered both preposterous and indecent but it was that attitude which, after Elizabeth had been rejected by other medical schools, opened the doors of New York state's Geneva Medical College. Improbably, the success of this eminently serious-minded pair could be said to begin with a joke. ![]() According to the relentlessly moralistic Elizabeth, women's inferior standing was owing to the deficiencies of women themselves, who are "so often careless mothers, weak wives, poor housekeepers, ignorant nurses, and frivolous human beings." ![]()
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