women physicians

Martha Morrison tells about her seventeen-year addiction to drugs and alcohol and her recovery.

A movie star named Angelo DeMarco finds himself in the care of the girlfriend he left seventeen years ago, who is now a cardiologist, after he suffers a heart attack on a movie set, and their unexpected reunion brings others as well--with his brother, a troubled priest, and the daughter he left behind before she was born, now an angry teenager.

Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.

As the Civil War ends, Cheney finds it's a difficult path to practice medicine as a woman.

"A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to obtain an M.D. degree in the United States, with profiles of two prominent individuals, who are associated through the influences they had on one another, the successes they achieved, or the goals they worked toward. Includes recommended readings and web sites"--Provided by publisher.

This introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.

Photographs, illustrations, and simple text describe the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor.

Highlights the life of Dr. Mary Walker, who served as a surgeon with the Union Army during the Civil War, where she received the Medal of Honor for her duty.

Profiles a woman anesthesiologist who was a pioneer in medicine, graduating from medical school at a time when few women attended college and going on to develop the Apgar score for measuring a newborn's physical condition at birth.