women physicians

Profiles American women who served as doctors and nurses in the Civil War.

Presents an account of three female medical interns going through the transition from student to doctor while trying to balance their personal lives and maintain a professional demeanor.

Dr. Maya Witherspoon flees her home in India following the mysterious deaths of her parents in 1909, setting up practice among the poor of London, but she knows she must find a way to develop the magical powers she inherited from her parents in order to stop the evil that stalks her.

A brief biography of Doris Taylor, a medical research scientist who is a pioneer in the treatment of heart disease.

A biography recounting the struggles and achievements of the first woman doctor in the United States.

A biography of the first woman doctor written as if she herself were relating her struggles to become a physician and open the field of medicine to women.

British-born, American-educated doctor Qanta A. Ahmed details her experiences working as a doctor in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the plight of women in the country and what she came to understand about Islam from her interactions with the people.

In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor harbors the traumatized eight-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.

Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for CNN--becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.