Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia - Hardcover

Windsor, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576073920 ISBN 13: 9781576073926

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2002

Synopsis

The definitive compilation of the inspiring and educational stories of women in medicine through the ages and around the world.

· More than 250 A–Z entries focusing primarily on women pioneers and mentors in medicine, from Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first black female physician in the United States, to Flossie Wong-Staal, who codiscovered and cloned the HIV virus

· Additional entries on organizations such as the Medical Women's International Association, the Media Act of 1858 and other legislative acts, and universities and institutions that have shaped the role of women in medicine

· Over 60 photographs and portraits of key nurses, physicians and scientists, including Louise Bourgeois, Florence Nightingale, and Marie Curie

· Extensive bibliography with websites listed wherever possible for easy access

About this title

Book Description:

A medieval nun. A Filipina orphan. A sharecropper's daughter from the American South. They had little in common but a dream and the fortitude to realize it. Hildegarde of Bingen, Dr. Honoria Acosta Sison, and former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders are just three of the hundreds of entries in Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia.

About the Author:

Laura Lynn Windsor is a health sciences reference librarian at Ohio University, Athens, OH.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1576073920
• ISBN 13: 9781576073926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280