"Women will not be what they are now"— Elizabeth Blackwell Breaks the Bonds Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief You ask me what I did, and what can be done as a lady. I entered the Maternité, dissected at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts alone, employed a répétiteur who drilled me in anatomy and smuggled me into the dead-house of La Charité at great risk of detection, where I operated on the cadaver. I once made the rounds of his wards in the Hôtel-Dieu with Roux, heard his lectures, and saw his operations. I attended lectures at the College of France and Jardin des Plantes ... It is my impression, for I ought only to put it in that modest form, that the ruling class in America is less humane, more addicted to money-getting and party spirit; and that reform ideas in America are much more talked of, but less acted on . Elizabeth Blackwell, Letters to her sister Emily (1850–54) (1) <h3>PREJUDICE IS MORE VIOLENT THE BLINDER IT IS</h3> The images above document a sea change in American medicine. After Elizabeth Blackwell broke the bonds, women were no longer there simply to be acted upon (left), but could themselves take action (right).
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"Women will not be what they are now" Elizabeth Blackwell Breaks the Bonds
Weissmann, Gerald
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Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Jul 1, 2007
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