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Elizabeth Blackwell Google Doodle in U.S and U.K

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Channel: Rajamanickam Antonimuthu · 2018 · People & Blogs

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The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in United Stated and United Kingdom for Elizabeth Blackwell’s 197th Birthday

Elizabeth Blackwell  was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Her sister Emily was the third woman in the US to get a medical degree.

Elizabeth Blackwell grew up in Bristol and emigrated to the United States with her family, where she began her professional life as a teacher. Early on, she asserted her moral convictions: when a teaching position in Kentucky exposed her to the brutality of slavery for the first time, she set up a Sunday school for slaves.

Years later, the death of a friend prompted her foray into medicine, as Blackwell believed a female physician might have lessened her friend’s suffering. She persisted through seemingly endless rejections from medical schools – at least once being told that she should dress as a man in order to gain admittance. Finally, she was accepted into the Geneva Medical College by a unanimous vote of the all-male student body. She went on to establish a women-governed hospital, found two medical colleges for women, and mentor several physicians.

Today Google Doodle shows Blackwell in the midst of her pioneering practice and celebrates the significant positive impact she had on the lives of people around the world.

Read more details about Elizabeth Blackwell at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell
See the Google Doodle for Elizabeth Blackwell’s 197th Birthday at https://www.google.com/doodles/elizabeth-blackwells-197th-birthday

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