The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell

by Elizabeth Schleichert

Book Overview

Examines the life of the first female doctor in the United States, who worked to open the field of medicine to women. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941477665
• ISBN13: 9780941477666
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

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The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell by Elizabeth Schleichert (Illustrated by Antonio Castro)(Hardcover)

Description from the book back cover: America's first female physician, Elizabeth Blackwell brought to her profession a revolutionary view of medical practice and education. Her career is a series of notable "first": she opened the first hospital staffed by women physicians and the first woman's medical college. Equally important, Blackwell redefined the scope of health care and worked to create a medical community responsive to the needs of women, children, minority groups, and the poor. The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell chronicles a difficult and lonely struggle: the struggle of a pioneering woman to make a place for women in the medical profession. Part of the 'Pioneers in Health and Medicine' series from Twenty-First Century Books (a division of Henry Holt and Co.)