Extraordinary Women of Medicine
New York : Children's Press, [1997]
Format: Book
Description: 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Presents biographical sketches highlighting the contributions of women, mostly American, to the field of medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Series: Extraordinary people.
Contents:
Women healers in ancient times -- James (Miranda) Barry -- Dorothea Lynde Dix -- Ann Preston -- Hannah E. Myers Longhorse -- Florence Nightingale -- Clara Barton -- Systems and schools of medicine -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Lydia F. Fowler -- Emily Blackwell -- Sarah P. Remond -- First African-American doctors -- Emeline H. Cleveland -- Marry H. Thompson -- Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska -- Emily Jennings Stowe -- Mary Edward Walker -- Clara A. Swain -- Elizabeth G. Anderson -- Sophia Jex-Blake --- Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Mary Eliza Mahoney -- Marie Josepha Mergler.
Sister Mary J. Dempsey -- Jane A. Delano -- Bertha Van Hoosen -- Elsie Inglis -- Anita N. McGee -- Susan L. Picote -- Annie W. Goodrich -- Golden age of women doctors -- Lillian D. Ward -- Maude Elizabeth S. Abbott -- Alice Hamilton -- Esther P. Lovejoy -- Maria Montessori -- S. Joseph Baker -- Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill -- Elsie Strang L'Esperance -- Margaret Sanger -- Elizabeth Kenny -- Gladys Rowena Dick -- Florence A. Blanchfield -- Karen Danielsen Horney -- Anna Freud -- Helen B. Taussig -- Hattie Elizabeth Alexander -- Women in medical research -- Dorothy Hansine Andersen -- Jane C. Wright -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -- June Osborn -- Bernadine Healy -- Antonia Coello Novello.
Sister Mary J. Dempsey -- Jane A. Delano -- Bertha Van Hoosen -- Elsie Inglis -- Anita N. McGee -- Susan L. Picote -- Annie W. Goodrich -- Golden age of women doctors -- Lillian D. Ward -- Maude Elizabeth S. Abbott -- Alice Hamilton -- Esther P. Lovejoy -- Maria Montessori -- S. Joseph Baker -- Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill -- Elsie Strang L'Esperance -- Margaret Sanger -- Elizabeth Kenny -- Gladys Rowena Dick -- Florence A. Blanchfield -- Karen Danielsen Horney -- Anna Freud -- Helen B. Taussig -- Hattie Elizabeth Alexander -- Women in medical research -- Dorothy Hansine Andersen -- Jane C. Wright -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -- June Osborn -- Bernadine Healy -- Antonia Coello Novello.
Subjects:
Women physicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women medical scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women in medicine -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women physicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women medical scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women in medicine -- History -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
051620307X
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HEALTH Sti | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.