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    In Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, author Tanya Lee Stone tells how Elizabeth Blackwell’s dream to become a doctor was finally realized. Elizabeth, the first American female to receive a medical degree was rejected by every medical school she applied to, until…

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    …the students at New York’s Geneva Medical College, thinking their teachers were only joking when they asked if a woman should be admitted, voted to let Elizabeth in. What a surprise when she showed up. Elizabeth outsmarted the entire class graduating with the highest grades in 1849.

    Geneva Medical College

    After graduation, Elizabeth was unable to find employment. It seemed that no one wanted to hire a female physician. Elizabeth sailed to Europe for additional training and returned to New York City where she opened her own medical practice.

    Elizabeth also ran a free clinic teaching hygiene to poor women and children. With her sister Emily, the third American female to receive a medical degree, Elizabeth opened The New York Infirmary for Women and Children. Elizabeth later opened her own medical school at the Infirmary training woman as doctors.

    Elizabeth Blackwell persevered and lived her dream, leading the way for American women physicians. 

    Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell is a beautifully told picture book biography with engaging illustrations by Marjorie Priceman for children.

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    "Here's a refreshing introduction to a regularly but often dryly cited female 'first'." --The Horn Book

    "Stone presents the highly readable and detailed story of a girl who is sure to inspire aspiring young doctors." --School Library Journal

    "Staccato text, short and snappy, easy to read yet full of information about both Blackwell and her times." --Booklist, starred review

    "A bracing, vivacious account of a pioneering woman." --Kirkus

    "[a] smart and lively biography of Elizabeth Blackwell." --Publishers Weekly

    "A short, incisive biography. . . . The cameos of action, matched by full-page pictures, make the history accessible. A must for library shelves." --Booklist, starred review on Elizabeth Leads the Way

    "This biography brims with upbeat energy as the spirited woman sets out to change the system--an energy amplified by Rebecca Gibbon's bright folk art-styled pictures." --The Washington Post on Elizabeth Leads the Way

    "[This book] fires up readers with a portrait of the 19th-century feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. . . . The sometimes informational tone is animated and energized by Gibbon's plentiful vignettes and paintings, rendered in a vibrant folk-art style." --Publishers Weekly on Elizabeth Leads the Way

    "Through words and pictures that work together and an emphasis on ideas and personality rather than factoids, this well-conceived introduction is just right for a young audience." --School Library Journal on Elizabeth Leads the Way

    "In lively prose well-matched by Gibbon's irrepressible images, Stone tells the story of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. . . . A fine introduction for very young readers to the woman and her key role in American history." --Kirkus Reviews on Elizabeth Leads the Way

    Tanya Lee Stone has written several books for young readers, including the young adult novel A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. She lives with her family in Vermont.

    Marjorie Priceman has twice received Caldecott Honors, one for her illustrations in Zin

    Books by Elizabeth Blackwell

    Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women
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    really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1970 — 42 editions
    Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
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    it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 17 editions
    A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life.
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    4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1737 — 3 editions
    Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiography of the First Woman in the USA to Receive a Degree in Medicine
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    3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
    Essays in medical sociology
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    it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1972 — 13 editions
    A Curious Herbal: Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the Most Useful Plants, Which Are Now Used in the Practice of Physick Engraved on Folio Copper Plates, after Drawings Taken from the Life
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    it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
    Purchase Of Women: The Great Economic Blunder
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    it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 7 editions
    La maison des secrets (Harlequin Prélud') (Prelud')
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    really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions
    Counsel to Parents On the Moral Education of Their Children, in Relation to Sex
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    really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 23 editions
    The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls
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    really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
    The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls
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    really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986 — 21 editions
    Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education o

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    Online Books by

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    (Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910)

    An online book about this author is available, as is a Wikipedia article.

    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Address Delivered at the Opening of the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 126 Second Avenue (New York: E. O. Jenkins, 1869) (PDF ar upstate.edu)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of Their Children (4th edition; New York: Brentano Bros.; et al., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of Their Children, in Relation to Sex (7th edition; London: Hatchards, 1884)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Essays in Medical Sociology (2 volumes; London: E. Bell, 1902)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: The Influence of Women in the Profession of Medicine: Address Given at the Opening of the Winter Session of the London School of Medicine for Women (reprint, 1890) (multiple formats at archive.org)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Medicine as a Profession for Women (New York: New York Infirmary for Women, 1860), also by Emily Blackwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895)

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    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Address on the medical education of women (Baptist & Taylor, book and job printers, Sun Building, corner of Fulton and Nassau Sts., 1864), also by Emily Blackwell and New York Infirmary for Women and Children (page images at HathiTrust)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Counsel to parents on the moral education of their children. (Brentano's liter. empor., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
    • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910: Essays in m