Elizabeth Blackwell's Oppression Of Women

The spread of Elizabeth Blackwell’s altruism began with her aspiration to build a hospital in New York City. Fortunately, slow business thrived to be a bustling one through Blackwell’s talks of health in her rented, one-room medical center in Jersey City. Following Blackwell’s establishment was a clinic, founded by Blackwell, her sister, and Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska, a Berlin midwife. Although labor in the clinic was ceased, the New York Infirmary for Women and Children was operative in 1857 by the three women. Granted that the infirmary aided the impoverished, facilities were available to instruct female medical and nursing students. In addition to the infirmary, Blackwell instituted a private practice and engaged in the foundation of other establishments, including the National Health Society of England and the New Hospital and the London School of Medicine for Women, the school where Blackwell was admitted as the professor of gynecology. The U.S. Sanitary Commission, constructed in 1861 under Lincoln, was also an establishment Blackwell participated in. Despite the end of her private practice in 1879, Blackwell began writing about various, noteworthy subjects such as family planning, cleanliness, women’s rights, and even her own biography (Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to …show more content…
As can be seen, not only was Elizabeth Blackwell an audacious woman who favored learning over conforming to the judgments of society, but Blackwell was also an amicable female who lent her hand to the ill and the