women in medicine

Brief biographies of seven notable women in the medical field: Elisabeth K?bler-Ross, Kathryn Nichol, Anna Ellington, Estelle Ramey, Mary Louise Robbins, Margaret Hewitt, and Mary Calderone.

Profiles women who work as nutritionists, doctors, dentists, or other health professionals and explains their duties and how they prepared for and got their positions.

Examines the varied role women have played in medicine--as healers, midwives, doctors, and nurses from ancient times to the 20th century.

Presents biographical sketches highlighting the contributions of women, mostly American, to the field of medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Examines how Marie Curie overcame major obstacles, discovered radium, and became one of history's greatest scientists.