Title: Petticoat Surgeon
First published: 1947
Description: Memior of an early medical pioneer Bertha Van Hoosen. Author was one of the first female graduates of medical school. Even rarer, Van Hoosen became a surgeon. Book follows her during her childhood on a farm near Rochester, Michigan, to her time at the University of Michigan medical school and beyond.

This is not a comic biography, but Van Hoosen has a light and no-nonsense touch. The earlier portions are somewhat reminiscent of *I Remember Mama.*
Subjects: Biography, Gynecologists, Obstetricians, Surgeons, Women surgeons, Gynecology, Women Physicians, Obstetrics, Surgery, History
Places: Illinois, Rochester, Michigan; Pontiac, Michigan;
People: Bertha Van Hoosen (1863-)
Time periods: 1870-1930