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TEEN/610.82/LATTA,S
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ix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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+