This book names the pioneering women in the field and discusses the roles that women--both famous and unknown--have played in the field of pharmacy.

Women have always been healers; they have helped each other through the birthing process, nursed the sick and wounded, and sought cures for illnesses and injuries. This book summarizes the lives of 240 significant or representative women who have engaged in the core professions of mid-wifery, nursing, and medicine.

The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students.

The purpose of the volume is to provide, in one location, sketches of persons important to American nursing.

In 1892, Andrew Taylor Still did the unimaginable when he accepted women and men equally in his newly opened American School of Osteopathy.

Depicts the discovery of the first safe and effective antibiotic for the treatment of human fungal diseases

Women now account for 55 percent of the active veterinarians in the field, and nearly 80 percent of veterinary students are women.

Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our society to this day. Her views on reproductive rights have made her a frequent target of conservatives and so-called family values activists.

Mahoney was the first African-American woman to break down the barriers and gain admittance to the nursing profession in the United States.

From about 1850, women physicians won gradual acceptance from male colleagues and the general public, primarily as caregivers to women and children. By 1920, they represented approximately 5 percent of the profession.

This book is the first biography to put her life and ideas at the center of the story and examine Spielrein's key role in the development of psychoanalysis.

Proceeding from the colonial period--when women participated in healing as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine--to their struggle in the 19th-century to enter medical schools, the book charts the emergence in our own time of women as full-fledged medical professionals.

This is a profile of an anesthesiologist who was a medical pioneer, graduating from medical school at a time when few women attended college, and developing the Apgar score, a measure of a newborn's physical condition at birth.

Not only were female homeopaths respected within their communities, they also enjoyed considerable professional advantages not available to women within regular medicine.

A riveting look into the personal lives of our presidents through the eyes of their White House doctor.

Women and Medicine provides a comprehensive and definitive history, from early riots in medical schools when women tried to enroll, to women finally overcoming obstacles, making medical breakthroughs and enjoying brilliant medical careers.

In their efforts to utilize their medical skills and training in the service of their country, women physicians fought not one but two male-dominated professional hierarchies: the medical and the military establishments. In the process, they also contended with powerful social pressures and constraints.

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

This book profiles 25 women who have made significant contributions to medical research, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lydia Folger Fowler, Virginia Apgar, and Rosalind Franklin, among others.