What is Elizabeth Blackwell?
{{Use British English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Elizabeth Blackwell | image = Elizabeth Blackwell.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1821|2|3|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Bristol]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1910|5|31|1821|2|3}} | death_place = [[Hastings]], England | nationality = British and American | occupation = {{unbulleted list|Physician}} | education = [[Geneva Medical College]] }} '''Elizabeth Blackwell''' (3 February 1821{{spaced ndash}}31 May 1910) was a [[British people|British]] physician. She was the first female [[Medical doctor|doctor]] in the [[United States]] and [[Europe]]. She was born in [[Bristol]], [[England]], on 3 February 1821. When she was young, her family moved to America. At first, she was a teacher. She became a doctor in 1849. She founded her own [[hospital]] in [[New York (state)|New York]]. In 1874 she started a medical school for women in London with [[Sophie Jex-Blake]] and promoted [[women's rights]]. She never married and [[abolitionism|opposed slavery]]. In 2013 the [[University of Bristol]] launched the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research. Elizabeth Blackwell lost sight in one eye in 1851. Blackwell wrote many books including Medicine as a Profession for Women and Address on the Medical Education for women. == Other websites == *[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/blackwell/ An online history] at the [[National Institutes of Health]], including copies of historical documents *[http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_blackwell_eliz.htm An online biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516052231/http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_blackwell_eliz.htm |date=2008-05-16 }} of Elizabeth Blackwell, with links to more articles on Blackwell and others in her famous family, plus links to many resources on the Internet *[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/bio