women physicians

Introduces the lives and careers of women who chose medicine as their profession including Florence Nightingale, Marie Zakrzewska, Elizabeth Kenny, Virginia Apgar, Edna Adan Ismail, and Adele Levine.

A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, a doctor and advocate for women in medicine, that uses primary sources to describe her life and work.

Pathologist Kay Scarpetta searches for the cause of death in the case of five young couples whose decomposed bodies are found without shoes and socks deep in the woods. Bones, fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain.

Sequel to The Plague Tales. Interweaves the stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is struggling to reach safety with his foster daughter in the aftermath of France's loss to Britain, and Janie Crowe, a surgeon who is enlisted in 2007 to unlock the secret of a debilitating genetic disease.

Georgia pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton is visiting her ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, when two malevolent strangers, hauntingly familiar to Sara, pullout guns at the station house, where several schoolchildren are on a class trip, and bloody mayhem ensues.

Zahra IbSada, a medicant on the planet of Irustan, chafes beneath the restrictions that keep women under the control of their fathers and husbands, but she sets off a revolution when she surreptitiously helps a friend keep her young daughter from being given in marriage to a man who has already killed two wives.

Medieval physician Kathryn Swinbrooke is busily attending to her patients and preparing for the Christmas holiday when the news arrives that the painter Richard Blunt has confessed to killing his young wife and two men. But his confession arouses Kathryn's suspicions, and she is compelled to investigate.

Explores the lives and work of a number of women active today in the field of medicine, examining some of the first women doctors, like Elizabeth Blackwell, and modern programs to help young girls become involved in medicine.

Great scientific achievements, innovations, and inventions have been recorded in recent times and in the past by men and women of color.