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The photographer

A graphic novel and photo journal that follows reporter Didier Lefevre on a dangerous journey through Afghanistan with the Doctors Without Borders mission.

Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800

Chronicles the treatments and theories of American medicine in the eighteenth century.
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Mary Walker wears the pants

the true story of the doctor, reformer, and Civil War hero
Provides an overview of the life of physician Mary Walker, president of the National Dress Reform Association in 1866, championing the belief that women shouldn't have to wear corsets and long skirts.

Mary Edwards Walker

the only female medal of honor recipient
2018
This book explores the life and times of Mary Edwards Walker, one of America's fascinating historical figures and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
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Surgeon in blue

Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War doctor who pioneered battlefield care
2013
A biography of the Civil War surgeon, Jonathan Letterman.

Women doctors and nurses of the Civil War

2009
Details the lives of American women who served as doctors and nurses during the Civil War including Dorothea Dix, Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, Clara Barton, Sally Tompkins, and others.

Wedded to war

a novel
2012
Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing training. On the battlefields, she and the other nurses find themselves up against corruption, opposition and wounded men such as they have never seen before. Charlotte's life intersects with that of an Irish immigrant who turns to the unthinkable when faced with starvation after her husband leaves for war.

A woman of valor

Clara Barton and the Civil War
1995

Hospital days

reminiscence of a Civil War nurse
1996

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