Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary

by Edward C. Atwater

An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.

This groundbreaking reference work contains brief biographical articles for over two hundred women, most of them little known, who graduated from schools of medicine in the United States before the Civil War. The volume includes an introductory essay examining the social and religious backgrounds of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465714
• ISBN13: 9781580465717
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"