Exploring Health Professions

For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care.

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas about women's illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases--brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor.

A photographic tribute to women doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.

A photographic tribute to women doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.

Black women physicians' stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women's history, and in black history.

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented.

Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger.

From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.

Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students.

The Second Edition of this forward-thinking text goes beyond the discussion of health disparities to highlight the importance of health equity.

Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM.

What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive?

A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.

**Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine** A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field.

M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, darkly funny, and totally unique debut memoir from physical therapist Adele Levine.