Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

    JMS PearceHull, England, United Kingdom Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson were the first women physicians in the United States and Britain.1 Both were born in England. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-I9I0) was born in Bristol but moved with her family to New York when aged eleven. Only after twelve medical schools rejected her did she manage…

  • Elizabeth Blackwell, MD

    JMS PearceEast Yorkshire, England Although Elizabeth Blackwell was portrayed on an 18 cent US stamp in 1974, curiously this was over a century after she graduated in medicine (Figure 1). Many remain unaware of her remarkable story as the first female Anglo-American physician, campaigner, and medical suffragette (Figure 2).1 She was born to a practising…