Fabulous Female Physicians (The Women's Hall of Fame Series)
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781896764436
Subjects: Inventors, engineers & medical figures; Life Skills & Personal Awareness, General Studies; Technology - Medicine; History; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography; Women physicians; Juvenile Nonfiction; Science & Technology - Medicine; Children: Grades 3-4; Children: Grades 4-6; Juvenile literature; History - Other; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Girls & Women; Children's 9-12 - Biography / Autobiography; Women in medicine; Biography
Description: Presents biographical sketches highlighting the contributions of women to the field of medicine. From various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, past and present, women doctors have overcome great odds to heal and help their communities. With boxed material and photographs. The Women's Hall of Fame Series explores the contributions and achievements of women around the world. Each book focuses on a specific area of endeavour. This book of ten biographies looks at amazing women, both living and in the past, whose lives and accomplishments make for exciting reading. Besides Emily Stowe and AIDS doctor Louise Teasdale, the book includes accessible stories about on early Native woman doctor, Susan LaFleche Picotte; Maria Montessori, who later became the founder of a world-wide movement in education; Haitian-born physician Carolle-Jean Murat, who has overcome devastating poverty and prejudice to become a world-renowned physician and educator; and Joy Seager, the "Kangaroo Island doctor" of Australi.