As the first woman to earn a medical ... for a woman in the mid-19th century. Elizabeth Blackwell faced immense challenges in her quest to become a doctor. Rejected by numerous medical schools ...

Sign up to our Bulletin to hear about our health research news, events and opportunitites. Elizabeth Blackwell is one of Bristol's most influential women. She was the ...

When she graduated from medical school in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell earned more than an M.D.: she also earned the distinction of becoming America’s first woman doctor. When Ann Trow Sommers ...

But Elizabeth’s situation was very different. As one of the first female doctor’s in the country she had ignored convention and set up a surgery. She was a very busy doctor – working at the ...