women physicians

As the chief of the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personal and professional life.

Adeline is just three days old when her mother dies. She is blamed for the death and considered bad luck. For years, she tries to please her family, wanting only acceptance and love, but often facing rejection. Finally, after discovering literature, she is given the chance to succeed.

Apothecary Kathryn Swinbrooke, along with her Irish fiance Colum Murtagh, the King's Commissioner in Canterbury, rush to find a killer when Sir Walter Maltravers, a victim of murder and theft, proves to be only the first in a rash of gruesome crimes.

The biography of May Chinn, the daughter of an escaped slave and a Native American. Chinn became a respected doctor in the New York community of Harlem in the 1920s.

Presents short biographical profiles of women notable for their contributions to medicine, from cardiologist Maude Abbott to physician and educator Marie Zakrzewska.

A biography of the physician who made significant contributions to the field of medicine as a researcher, professor, and public health advocate and who became the first woman ever to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Second year surgical resident Abby DiMatteo stumbles onto a horrifying conspiracy when a wealthy patient who has just had a heart transplant becomes ill and Abby, in trying to treat the woman, discovers the donor records have been falsified.

A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first woman doctor, drawing from eyewitness accounts, diary entries, newspaper clippings, and other documents to examine her work as a physician and crusader for women's rights in the mid-1800s.

A biography of the first woman doctor who paved the way for other women entering the field of medicine.

Presents the career of Elizabeth Blackwell stressing the problems she had to overcome to be a doctor, an all-male profession in the mid-nineteenth century.