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Health Science, Technology & History

Elizabeth Blackwell Becomes the First Woman to Earn a Medical Degree on January 23, 1849

She opened the medical profession to women worldwide and permanently reshaped how society views women as healers, professionals, and leaders in healthcare. A World That Excluded Women from Medicine In the early 19th century, medicine was an exclusively male domain. Social norms across Europe and the United States firmly held […]