| Description |
x, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Dinosaur Is Twitching: Famous Firsts -- 2. To Be a Doctor in America: Overcoming Obstacles -- 3. Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Surgeons General and Presidents' Doctors -- 4. Historical Perspectives: Midwives and Doctors around the Globe -- 5. Women on the March: Civil War Heroines -- 6. Pioneers, O Pioneers!: Then and Now -- 7. One University's Contributions: Those Remarkable Johns Hopkins Women -- 8. Oh, Brave New World: Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine -- 9. Women's Proper Place: Our Biological Selves |
| Summary |
"Biographical chapters look at the lives and accomplishments of Elizabeth Blackwell, Janet Travell, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Rosalyn Yalow, and Marie Curie, as well as numerous other pioneers. Women and Medicine is a valuable addition to the field of women's studies, a resource for women seeking careers in medicine, and a useful tool to all women seeking role models who challenged the status quo."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women in medicine.
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Women in medicine -- Biography.
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Women in medicine -- United States.
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Sexism in medicine -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001055045 |
| ISBN |
0810842386 alkaline paper |
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