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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...
3) Medicine
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Provides information on African-American medical professionals that have added to the worlds knowledge in making saving lives.
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Chinese Cinderella volume 2
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The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.
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Prior to the development of a simple test called the Apgar score, many newborn babies missed receiving the urgent care they needed at birth. Dr. Virginia Apgar came up with the Apgar score to help these newborns by rating them in a number of different health areas. The savior of countless young lives, Virginia Apgar is hailed as a legend, a trailblazer, and an inventor. Readers delve into the riveting story of a medical legend who inspired women doctors...
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The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history, and although many were uncomfortable with the idea of women interacting with soldiers, there simply weren't enough male doctors to meet the needs of the wounded. Women in both the Union and the Confederacy helped fill that need, and in the doing so, changed the course of American medical history. This book tells the story of many of these brave women, including Dorothea Dix, an advocate...
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"On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Indian woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside...
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Commodities broker Michael Cromwell is king of the Wall Street jungle. With money, power and an engagement to a beautiful fashion designer, he has it all. But when Michael travels to the Amazon to finalize the divorce from his wife--a jungle doctor--she reveals that he also has a blowdart-shooting, giant spider-carrying 13-year-old son, Mimi- Siku.
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The enigmatic Dr. Helen Magnus and her team are on a mission to protect and study strange creatures that are secretly living among us. Along with their newest recruit, forensic psychiatrist Will Zimmerman, the group must face their darkest fears and their worst nightmares in order to provide a safe haven for the monsters that lurk in the shadows.
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Dr. Zoe Hart's life was going according to plan: she was on her way to becoming a heart surgeon just like her father. But when she's told that she didn't have the bedside manner needed for an important fellowship, she's devastated. If she wants to get the fellowship next year, she must become a general practitioner. So, the New Yorker takes a chance on an offer from an admirer--in the deep south.
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More love, laughs and Hart in a small Southern town! Season two opens with native New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart continuing her medical practice and beginning to find roots in tiny BlueBell, Alabama. As if Zoe's sizzling connection with bad boy bartender Wade Kinsella and strong emotional ties to sexy lawyer George Tucker aren't enough to send her over the edge, an election scandal is brewing between her best friend, Mayor Lavon Hayes, and his opponent,...
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Talented Dr. Zoe Hart is just about to settle down in Manhattan with her new boyfriend Joel when Blue Bell lures her back with unfinished business. As the season begins and Zoe fights to regain her practice from Dr. Brick Breeland and New Yorker Joel struggles to blend in, small-town life - and love - carries on. Lemon Breeland and Wade Kinsella become unlikely business partners, Mayor Layon Hayes finds happiness with AnnaBeth Nass, and George Tucker...
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The belles and boys are back as Hart of Dixie continues for a fourth fun-filled season. At the end of season three, Zoe finally admits to herself -- and the town of quirky BlueBell, Alabama -- that she is in love with Wade, who decides to turn down a lucrative opportunity to franchise the Rammer Jammer and stay in BlueBell, but does this mean he returns Zoe's feelings? Meanwhile, Cricket (guest star Brandi Burkhardt) surprises everyone with a big...
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A doctor in a time when female physicians were rare, Mary Edwards Walker volunteered for the Union Army during the Civil War. An alleged spy, prisoner of war, activist and groundbreaker, Walker made an impact in the military and beyond. This book explores the life and times of one of America s fascinating historical figures and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
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