Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Woman Physicians

Books and Videos about Exhibition Themes

For Various Ages

The best list of age-designated books and videos related to the exhibition can be found on the NLM exhibition web site:
www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/resources. (Click on "Suggested Reading," "Videos," and "Research.")

Additional books for adults and young adults not on the web site:

• Lori Arviso Alvord M.D., with Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt.
  The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First
  Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing. Bantam, 2000.

• Virginia Cornell.
  Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies. Manifest Publications, 1991.

• Kuwana Haulsey.
  Angel Of Harlem: A Novel Based on the Life of Dr. May Chinn
  . One World/Ballantine, 2004.

• Cathy Luchetti.
  Medicine Women: The Story of Early-American Women Doctors. New York: Crown, 1998.

• Danielle Ofri.
  Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue. Beacon Press, 2003.

• Mari Grana.
  Pioneer Doctor: The Life of a Pioneer Physician ( the true story of Dr. Mary (Mollie) Babcock Atwater). Globe Pequot Press, 2005.

• Margaret E. Mohrmann.
  Attending Children: A Doctor's Educati on. G eorgetown University Press, 2005.

• Mary Canaga Rowland.
  As Long as Life: The Memoirs of a Frontier Woman Doctor. Storm Peak Press, 1994.

• (Reference) Laurie Scrivner and J. Suzanne Barnes, eds.
  A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers: Midwives, Nurses, and Physicians. Greenwood Press, 2002.

• Dale L. Walker.
  Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond. St. Martin's Press, 2005.