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Exhibition Gallery
Exhibition Gallery
Celebrating America's Women Physicians
Women have always been healers. As mothers and grandmothers, women have always nursed the sick in their homes. As midwives, wise women, and curanderas, women have always cared for people in their communities. Yet, when medicine became established as a formal profession in Europe and America, women were shut out.
Women waged a long battle to gain access to medical education and hospital training. Since then, they have overcome prejudices and discrimination to create and broaden opportunities within the profession. Gradually, women from diverse backgrounds have carved out successful careers in every aspect of medicine.
Changing the Face of Medicine introduces some of the many extraordinary and fascinating women who have studied and practiced medicine.
This exhibition honors the lives and achievements in medicine. Women physicians have excelled in many diverse medical
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Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Name: Avery, Edward V.
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Hierarchy: Diocesan
City: Philadelphia, PA
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Exhibition Collection
Elizabeth Blackwell, MD — obstetrics and gynecology
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
When she graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College in , Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (–) became the first woman to earn an MD degree from an American medical school. She supported medical education for women and helped many other women's careers. By establishing the New York Infirmary in , she offered a practical solution to one of the problems facing qualified women who were rejected from internships and training opportunities elsewhere because of their gender.
Read more about Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD — general medicine
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (–) challenged the racist beliefs that prevented African Americans from pursuing careers in medicine. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College in to become the first African American woman in the United States to earn an MD