Description:Bold Women of Medicine tells the stories of twenty-one courageous women from the 1800s to the present focused on finding cures, tending the sick and wounded, and healing with science and compassion. With grace and bravery they broke down barriers to enter battlefields and operating rooms. Readers meet groundbreakers such as Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, who went from the sole female student in her medical school to eventually founding her own hospital, staffed by all women; Mary Carson Breckinridge, the “nurse on horseback” who delivered babies in the Appalachian Mountains, believing that everyone, even the poor and uneducated, deserved good healthcare; and heart surgeon Kathy Magliato, one of the few women trained in heart transplant surgeries. Packed with photos, informative sidebars, and including source notes and a bibliography, Bold Women of Medicine is an invaluable addition to any student’s or aspiring doctor or nurse’s bookshelf.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs (20) (Women of Action). To get started finding Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs (20) (Women of Action), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs (20) (Women of Action)
Description: Bold Women of Medicine tells the stories of twenty-one courageous women from the 1800s to the present focused on finding cures, tending the sick and wounded, and healing with science and compassion. With grace and bravery they broke down barriers to enter battlefields and operating rooms. Readers meet groundbreakers such as Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, who went from the sole female student in her medical school to eventually founding her own hospital, staffed by all women; Mary Carson Breckinridge, the “nurse on horseback” who delivered babies in the Appalachian Mountains, believing that everyone, even the poor and uneducated, deserved good healthcare; and heart surgeon Kathy Magliato, one of the few women trained in heart transplant surgeries. Packed with photos, informative sidebars, and including source notes and a bibliography, Bold Women of Medicine is an invaluable addition to any student’s or aspiring doctor or nurse’s bookshelf.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs (20) (Women of Action). To get started finding Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs (20) (Women of Action), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.