•This work provides a
more expanded view of her achievements
with a more modern analysis.
–In 1849, she received her medical degree and was the first woman in the U.S. or Europe to accomplish this.
–Her conception of her
gender influenced how she thought about and
later taught medicine.
–Opposing the increased use of gynecological surgery to cure women, she accused male doctors of being irresponsible
and claimed they were making women
sterile unnecessarily.