Rachel Baker
Author
Pub. Date
c1971
Description
"She proved that women could be doctors too. "I'm going to be a doctor." young Elizabeth Blackwell tell her family. She knows it won't be easy. In 1840, there were no women doctors in America. But Elizabeth was raised to think for herself. The medical schools she applies to won't accept her. Doctors angrily tell her to give up. Finally, when shi is accepted at the Geneva Medical College in upstate New York, Elizabeth finds out it was the result...