How Did Elizabeth Blackwell Affect Society

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She was a well respected woman that many thought was going to lead woman in the fight for equal rights.

Known as The Golden Age in English history, the 45 year rule of Queen Elizabeth I turned the declining country of England, into one of the most powerful and prosperous countries in the world.

“She turned to private study and was taught anatomy at the London Hospital and general medicine under the tuition of professors at St Andrews University and Edinburgh University Extra-Mural School”(Brooks 13-15). None of this would have been possible without the continued financial and moral support of her father. In order to practice medicine, Garrett had to gain a qualifying diploma. London University, the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and other examining bodies refused to allow her to sit their examinations, but she discovered that the Society of Apothecaries did not specifically ban women from taking their exams. “In 1865 Elizabeth went on to pass the

Elizabeth I is considered a Machiavellian queen; she placed the political unity of England above any other aspect of her kingdom, including religion. Elizabeth I’s reign was influenced politically and religiously, in respect to ideas about gender. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, responded authoritatively to any opposition she faced.

We define moral courage as the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement. When we say a person has moral courage, we speak of things like ethics, good and evil, right and wrong. This is the kind of person who does bold things. They do these things not because they are trying to make a name for themselves or impress their peers, but because it is the right thing to do. A person with moral courage stands up in the face of adversity.

Her speech was mostly drawn from her experience of racism, racial injustice and poor treatment of women when she lived in the South. Her belief in the ending of these injustices was based on her religion and belief in Christianity and then natural rights of all individuals. Her motives to write the speech was based on changing the thinking of other people into acknowledging that all humans were equal despite their race, gender or ideologies. They were therefore supposed to be treated as the same irrespective of their social classes. Some of her personal details could have influenced the speech that she wrote. Among them is gender since she was a woman and her beliefs in Christianity through reading the Bible that championed that all people were the same

against lynching and created an impact on slaves. People who did not agree with her were

Weir Mitchell was a “doctor, writer, and a poet,” the man also thought, according to The Rest Cure: Repetition or Resolution of Victorian Women’s Conflicts? that men were the better gender and that women’s nervous systems were “more irritable”(8). Weir Mitchell was also a very rude man, he had said at some point to or about one of his patients that “She was a pallid, feeble creature… and has no more bosom than the average chicken of a boardinghouse table. Nature had wisely prohibited this being from increasing her breed” (The Rest Cure Revisited). Why would a doctor say that about one of his patients? Well, women weren’t equal to men back then, hence they were considered frail and weak. Weir Mitchell also had a skewed view on women and didn’t know a women’s body works. Weir Mitchell thought that normal things to a woman at some point in her life with go through menstruation, menopause, and lactation (8). Weir also thought that the organs of a woman were not equal, as apparently male’s organs are equal, and the only organ of value was a woman’s reproductive system specifically the ovaries because they could make babies, they were the dominate organs (8). His per say “bedside manner” wasn’t all that good either; according to the article (The Rest Cure Revisited), he threatened to climb into bed with one of his patients to get her out of bed for whatever reason. His “nice and encouraging” side of being a doctor wasn’t there either; for example, from the article (The Rest Cure

Elizabeth Blackwell deserves to be the TIME’s Women of the year because she created many opportunities for women and changed medicine. Blackwell was born February 3, 1821 in Bristol, England. Blackwell along with with her 8 siblings, mom and dad moved to New York in 1832 after her father's sugarcane industry was shut down. Elizabeth Blackwell became a teacher in America but later in 1849, Blackwell became the first woman in America to be awarded a medical degree, where she graduated from Geneva Medical College. Blackwell decided she wanted to pursue this career because one of her close friend had suggested that they would have been spared her worst suffering if her physician would have been a woman. Blackwell saved many lives. Blackwell also

This is when she began flirting with the line of being an Antinomian. Antinomians were radical Puritans that believed that ministers were beginning to preach more from the “covenant of works” angle as opposed from the “covenant of grace” position. This was a very controversial outlook upon one’s political and religious leaders, considering a main ideal of the Puritans is that the “covenant of works” is absolutely wrong. Antinomians were a threat to the Puritan lifestyle of conformity because it created animosity amongst the members of the colony.

(Hannam 296) During the Anti-Slavery Movement, she had valuable experience in public speaking and running poilitical organizations through her work in the abolishionist movement. (298 ) in the process women were generally discouraged from taking active part in public life and expected to join women only groups in support of male organizations (ibid) While Elizabeth Cady Stanton is best known for her long contribution to the woman suffrage struggle, without her struggles these issues wouldnt have been effective in winning property rights for married women, equal guardianship of children, and liberalized divorce laws. These reforms made it possible for women to leave marriages that were abusive of the wife, the children, and the economic health of the family.

she met president douglass and congerman, and her stories of slaery helped change view against slavery.it was a very hard moment to express how it was like to be torchred

Blackwell also believed that women should receive quality healthcare regardless of their economic status. In 1857, Blackwell finally established a practice for poor women and children where she was able to fulfil her goal of giving women convenient healthcare. Blackwell’s hard work and concern for women’s healthcare built up her reputation as the

When Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical School in 1849, she became the first woman doctor in the United States. When she enrolled in the Medical Register of the United Kingdom, this made her Europe’s first modern woman doctor.