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4) The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
Author
Language
English
Description
"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of 'ordinary' womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For her, it was just another day at the office... In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the Psych ER, recounting...
Series
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xl, 312 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Fisher includes a comprehensive introduction and a detailed chronology of Poe's short life; each entry is introduced by a short headnote that places the selection in historical and cultural context, and explanatory notes provide information about people and places. --from publisher description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
NC 1230L
Physical Desc
54 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There werent many women who tried to become doctors when Virginia Apgar went to medical schoolbut she didnt let that stop her. After a professor discouraged from becoming a surgeon, she became an anesthesiologist instead and created the famous Apgar test to check the health of newborn babies. Its a test thats still used in hospitals across the world today!" --
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 284 pages ; 21cm
Language
English
Description
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with 'imposter syndrome'--a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a 'real' doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world, Koven's 'Letter to a Young Female Physician' has...
15) Mae Jemison
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to travel into space. This alone was a remarkable achievement, but Jemison accomplished so much more. She was a doctor, an engineer, a Peace Corps volunteer, a teacher, and the founder and president of two technology companies. In this lively biography, readers will discover the life of this amazing woman, from childhood through her time at NASA to her accomplishments after leaving the space...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as a surgeon and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her mother become a renowned anesthesiologist too. As a young girl,...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes a day in the life of a doctor in colonial Philadelphia, where he was trained, common ailments and how he treated them, and ways in which he tried to improve conditions for women, slaves, and others.
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The youngest American to ever orbit the earth-cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux-shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen. "It may be hard to believe while I'm gravity-bound on my bedroom floor, but if there's one thing I've learned in my time on Earth, it's that as long as you keep saying yes, everything is possible," says author Hayley Arceneaux. Arceneaux's power comes from her faith and her ability...
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