women physicians

An illustrated introduction for young readers to the personal life and achievements of the woman credited with being the first woman physician in the United States.

A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to attend medical school and practice medicine in the United States, and also discussing her careers in Paris and London, and the medical colleges she helped establish.

Recounts the author's experiences and observations of the genocide in Darfur, and her role as a physician treating girls who had been raped and mutilated, after tensions between Sudan's Islamist dictatorship and communities such as the Zaghawa tribe exploded.

Natalia, a young doctor in route to an orphanage, learns of her grandfather's sudden death and the mysterious circumstances that led him far from home, and in her efforts to understand why her grandfather, a rational man, would choose to undertake such a journey leads her to uncover a story her grandfather never related to her about his childhood during World War II.

Chronicles the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell, discussing her family, education, studies abroad, medical practice, pioneer work, and other related topics.

The author describes her life-changing experience working as a doctor in Antarctica in 1999, during which time she discovered she had breast cancer and had to treat herself with the aid of her own patients and U.S. doctors via the Internet.

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.

A biography of Florence Sabin, a medical researcher, who was the first female professor at Johns Hopkins University.

A presentation of the achievements of the woman who was the first to enter medical school, who established the first nursing school in the United States, who began medicalcolleges for women, and who made it possible for other womento become doctors.

A biography of the young Omaha Indian woman who became the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school.