【美国人物志】伊丽莎白·布莱克威尔 (7/9)

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伊丽莎白 布莱克威尔 她是西方第一位成为医生的女性,19世纪医生都是男性。30岁在美国开第一家女子诊所,47岁成立自己的女子医学院。
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Elizabeth Blackwell
London
Florence Nightingale
the United States
Boston
PhiladelphiaElizabeth Blackwell's work with the poor led her to believe that doctors could help people more effectively by preventing sickness. She started a program in which doctors visited patients in their homes. The doctors taught patients how to clean the houses and how to prepare food so sickness could be prevented. News of Elizabeth's theories spread. Soon, she was asked to start a hospital in London. She spoke to groups in London about disease prevention. And she worked with her friend Florence Nightingale. Elizabeth returned to the United States to start America's first training school for nurses. And in 1868, she opened her medical college for women. She taught the women students about disease prevention. It was the first time the idea of preventing disease was taught in a medical school. Soon other medical schools for women opened in Boston and Philadelphia.