Heal thyself in âThe Doctors Blackwellâ
Confronting the complicated legacy of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US
By Jennifer Latson Globe correspondent,Updated January 20, 2021, 7:28 p.m.
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Americaâs first female doctor wasnât all that interested in healing the sick. She was also surprisingly ambivalent about womenâs rights â and about women in general.
âWomen are feeble, narrow, frivolous ⦠and undeveloped in thought and feeling,â she once wrote to a suffragist, voicing her objection to the activistâs claim that the tyranny of men was to blame for the subjugation of women. âThe exclusion and constraint woman suffers, is not the result of purposed injury or premeditated insult. It has arisen naturally, without violence, simply because woman has desired nothing more.â
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