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The excellent doctor Blackwell : the life of the first female physician / Julia Boyd.
Van Pelt Library R489.B52 B69 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyd, Julia, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
- Blackwell, Elizabeth.
- Physicians, Women.
- Women in medicine.
- History.
- Women physicians.
- United Kingdom.
- Great Britain.
- History, 19th Century.
- Physicians, Women--history.
- Women physicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Women in medicine--History--19th century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians, Women.
- United Kingdom.
- History, 19th Century.
- Physicians, Women--history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 314 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Pub., 2005.
- Summary:
- Elizabeth Blackwell was one of a number of remarkable women to emerge in the middle of the nineteenth century whose ideas and actions fundamentally changed the status of their sex. This book expands that footnote to tell the wider story of a pioneer woman doctor who changed social history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-300) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0750941405
- OCLC:
- 63278987
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