See Also: Paper Asset(money)
Blackwell(health)
Blackwell, Elizabeth(encyclopedia)
Blackwell, Elizabeth(health)
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Asset for asset swap(money)
Asset for asset swap(finance)
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Blackwell, Elizabeth (health) and Paper Asset (money)


Blackwell, Elizabeth (health)


1821?1910) The first woman to receive a medical degree from an accredited American college. Blackwell was born in Bristol, England. Her father was a nonconformist, liberal, and abolitionist. In 1832 with her family, she immigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio. Blackwell decided to become a doctor in 1844 after a family friend dying with cancer said that she would have suffered less if she had been cared for by a female physician. In 1844, Blackwell visited a family friend who was dying of cancer and who told her how much she had suffered from the humiliation of being treated by male doctors.





Paper Asset (money)


Definition: Assets on a company's books that are not readily usable or convertible to cash.