Elizabeth Blackwell

Japanese: ブラックウェル - ぶらっくうぇる(英語表記)Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell

She was the first fully qualified female doctor in America. She also played a pioneering role in the women's movement, working to improve the status of women. She was born in Bristol, England. She immigrated to America in 1832 and aimed to study medicine, but was rejected by 17 schools because she was a woman. In 1847, she entered Hobart College in New York State, graduating in 1849 and becoming the first qualified female doctor. She traveled to Europe and trained at the Maternité Hospital in Paris and St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where she also met Nightingale. She returned to New York in 1851, and in 1857, she founded the New York Hospital for Women and Children, and also assisted in the establishment of a medical school and nursing school for women. In 1875, she became a professor at the first female medical school in England (London). She was interested in preventive medicine, and was active in the women's movement, publishing treatises on the issue of expanding women's rights.

[Yoji Nagatoya]

[Reference] | Female doctor | Nightingale

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Japanese:

アメリカにおける最初の正式の女性医師。女性運動においても先駆者的な役割をなし、女性の地位向上に努めた。イギリスのブリストルに生まれる。1832年アメリカに移住、医学を志したが、女子なるがゆえに17の学校で断られた。1847年ニューヨーク州のホバート・カレッジに入学し、1849年卒業、女性で最初の有資格の医師となった。ヨーロッパに渡り、パリのマテルニテ病院や、ロンドンのセント・バーソロミュー病院で研修を行い、この際ナイチンゲールとも会った。1851年ニューヨークに戻り、1857年ニューヨーク女性・小児病院を創始、さらに女子医大・看護学校の設立を援助した。1875年、イギリス最初の女子医大(ロンドン)の教授となった。予防医学に関心をもち、女性運動に力を入れて、女権拡張問題についての論著を出した。

[長門谷洋治]

[参照項目] | 女医 | ナイチンゲール

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