Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Doctor to Modern Times
No. of pages 124
Published: 2000
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There are 124 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe .
Adele Glimm writes fiction and articles as well as biographies. She lives in New York City.
This book has the following chapters: Chapter 1: The First Step On A Long Journey. Chapter 2: The Unusual Education of The Blackwell Daughters. Chapter 3: Fire, Riots, Cholera, And Sailing To America. Chapter 4: More Cholera, Abolitionists, The Great Fire of 1835, And A Runaway Slave. Chapter 5: A Terrible Loss, Struggling to Survive, And A Brave New Direction. Chapter 6: Doing the Impossible, Impractical, And Unwomanly. Chapter 7: A Lady Medical Student Is Either Mad or Bad. Chapter 8: Helping to Heal At The Women's Hospital. Chapter 9: First Woman Doctor - At Last! Chapter 10: Disaster Strikes in Paris. Chapter 11: Success In London. Chapter 12: Struggling To Succeed In New York. Chapter 13: "A Child Will Have A Place In My Heart. " Chapter 14: Turning An Old House Into A New Hospital. Chapter 15: Training Nurses For The Civil War. Chapter 16: This Medical College Is For Women. Timeslines: The World During Elizabeth's Life. Resources. Index.