Bold women of medicine : 21 stories of astounding discoveries, daring surgeries, and healing breakthroughs
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/BIOGRAPHY/610.82/LATTA,S
TEEN/610.82/LATTA,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Biographies Y/BIOGRAPHY/610.82/LATTA,S Available
Teen TEEN/610.82/LATTA,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2017]
DESCRIPTION

ix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781613734377, 1613734379 :, 1613734379, 9781613734377, 1613734379, 9781613734377
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction: go tomorrow to the hospital to see the she doctors! -- The bold pioneers -- Florence Nightingale: Victorian rule breaker -- Elizabeth Blackwell: medical pioneer -- Clara Barton: bold angel -- Marie Zakrzewska: woman's spirited ally -- Rebecca Lee Crumpler and Rebecca Cole: first African American women physicians -- Mary Edwards Walker: gutsy surgeon in pants -- Medical women making headway -- Bertha Van Hoosen: unstoppable petticoat surgeon -- Susan La Flesche Picotte: a bridge between worlds -- Elizabeth Kenny: dogged nurse from the Outback -- Mary Carson Breckinridge: mountaineer nurse on horseback -- Helen Taussig: from blue to a lovely shade of pink -- Virginia Apgar: the Apgar score -- And today still fighting -- Catherine Hamlin: the fistula pilgrims -- Edna Adan Ismail: the dump that became a hospital -- Anne Brooks: sister doctor with attitude -- Jerri Nielsen: icy courage -- Kathy Magliato: a persistent heart -- Bonnie Simpson Mason: taking it to the nth dimension -- Adele Levine: a leap of faith -- Sherrie Ballantine-Talmadge: back on the field!

Age 12+