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Astronauts United States Biography Juvenile literature Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 Physician and patient Physicians Physicians United States Biography Ride, Sally Juvenile literature United States Women astronauts United States Biography Juvenile literature Women physicians Women physicians United States BiographyBrown, Jasmine
Summary: "No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROKoven, Suzanne
Summary: "A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOVEN, SUZANNE KOVPuri, Sunita
Summary: "A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as a surgeon and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PURI, SUNITA PURSweet, Victoria
Summary: "A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel. Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at theirpatients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SWEET, VICTORIA SWELatta, Sara L.
Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WALHumphries, Suzanne
Summary: This autobiography tells the intricate and personal story one doctor's path through medical school and out into academia, specialty medicine, and practice, having to conform to the system's standards. Like many doctors, she was on the way to becoming one of the walking dead. Then, one day she realized that policy was harming her patients, and she took a stand. This resulted in hostility and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHRIES, SUZANNE HUMOfri, Danielle.
Summary: Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country-and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of this 250-year-old institution as a tentative medical student, she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.9 OFRNimura, Janice P.
Summary: "The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NIMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NIMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NIMSummary: "The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor"--Www.imdb.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRNimura, Janice P.
Summary: "The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom NimuraStone, Tanya Lee.
Summary: An introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLABird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLIRiddolls, Tom.
Summary: Sally Ride soared into outer space on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983, the youngest astronaut and the first U.S. woman in space. Just 32 years old that year, this California girl was already an accomplished astrophysicist when NASA chose her from over 8,000 applicants to join its team of astronauts. Since then, Sally Ride has spent over 343 hours in space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RIDIsaacson, Walter
Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021