"The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend...

"The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights"--

The biography of May Chinn, the daughter of an escaped slave and a Native American. Chinn became a respected doctor in the New York community of Harlem in the 1920s.

There was a time when most people thought women should not be doctors. Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to change that. She found a medical school that accepted her. Then, she earned the highest grades in her class. Elizabeth became the first woman doctor in the United States. Discover how this pioneer in medicine and women's equality changed the world forever.

A biography of Elizabeth Blackwell who overcame many difficulties to become the first woman physician in the United States.

A biography of the doctor who, along with other achievements, was among the first to act on the idea that preventative medicine and health care for children is a function of government.