num_pages: 368
description: With the objectivity and insight of a scholar and the love and admiration of a daughter, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot recounts the extraordinary life of her mother, Dr. Margaret Morgan-Lawrence, one of the first African-American women to graduate from both Cornell University and Columbia University's School of Medicine to become a physician. 22 pages of photos.
language: English
title: Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
titlecomplete: Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
genres: History, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 96
publisher: Penguin Books