women physicians

Natalia, a young doctor on a medical mission to an orphanage in the Balkans, ponders the mystery of her beloved grandfather's recent death. She finds the answers she seeks in the story of an abused deaf-mute woman in the village of his childhood who formed a bond with a tiger that escaped from the zoo following the German bombardment in 1941.

"In the 1830's, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Career options were few. But Elizabeth refused to accept these common beliefs and would not take no for an answer. This inspiring story of the first female doctor in America shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all the female doctors to come."--Container.

Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles look into the murders of two cloistered nuns, but it is only when the body of another woman is found horribly mutilated that the investigators begin to grasp the scope of the crimes.

A brief biography of Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, who for a number of years strived to provide better healthcare for the people of northern Wisconsin.

In 1672 London, although women enjoy greater freedom, they are not allowed to practice medicine, a restriction that Hannah Devlin evades by treating patients that most other doctors shun: the city's poor. But Hannah has a special knowledge, and she's drawn into a murder investigation that may conceal conspiracy as far-reaching as the king himself. She leaves a diary that Claire Donovan, a history teacher in Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2008 uses for clues in a modern day murder that appears to relate to events from Hannah's time.