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Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Chapter 25: ADDRESSES
By Elizabeth Blackwell
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The author traces her formative family and educational influences, the development of a determination to pursue medical study, and the practical efforts required to obtain training in both American and European institutions. She documents clinical and hospital work, academic challenges, and the moral and social convictions that motivated advocacy for wider education for women. The narrative follows the founding of clinics and an infirmary, collaboration with colleagues and family, and the tactics used to overcome institutional resistance. Personal letters, reminiscences, and reflective passages are interwoven to illuminate both everyday struggles and broader arguments for expanding professional opportunities for women.

ADDRESSES

The following addresses and publications indicate that ‘search after righteousness’ which has occupied later life in England.

  • How to keep a Household in Health; given at the Working Women’s College, 1870.
  • Medicine and Morality, 1881; in the ‘Modern Review.’
  • Rescue Work in relation to Vice and Disease, 1881; before Mrs. Meredith’s Society.
  • Christian Socialism, 1882.
  • Wrong and Right Methods of dealing with Social Evil, based on Parliamentary Evidence, 1883.
  • On the Decay of Municipal Representative Government: a Personal Experience in Hastings, 1885.
  • Purchase of Women a Great Economic Blunder, 1886.
  • Criticism of Gronlund’s Co-operative Commonwealth; given before the Fellowship of the New Life, 1888.
  • A Medical Treatise on the Corruption of Neo-Malthusianism, 1888.
  • Christian Duty in regard to Vice; a letter to the International Congress, 1889.
  • Christianity a Battle, not a Dream; given before the Christo-Theosophical Society.
  • Erroneous Method in Medical Education; Counsel to the Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 1892.