Women in Medicine: A Celebration of Their Work
A photographic tribute to women doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.\ Women in Medicine celebrates the women who spend their lives providing treatment, giving comfort and easing the pain of patients in hospitals and clinics across North America.\ The book's introduction traces the tumultuous progress of women healers from ancient Egypt until the present. Centuries before medical schools formally trained women, they learned through trial and error by caring for family members. The...
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A photographic tribute to women medical professionals. An introduction traces women's role in medicine from ancient Egypt to the present, the book is striking unposed and candid photographs and memorable quotes, historic and contemporary.
Photographers' Preface9Foreword11Introduction21Photographic Tribute43Technical Notes186Photo Credits187Bibliography190Index191
\ Spokane Spokesman-Review105 stunning images.\ — Carla K. Johnson\ \ \ \ \ Canadian Book Review AnnualStunning black and white photography... welcome celebration of women on the front lines of life and death in North America.\ — Margaret Conrad\ \ \ E-StreamsRecommended for medical school libraries, large public libraries, and the personal libraries of women working in the medical fields.\ — Peggy Brown\ \ \ \ \ Victoria Times ColonistWhat really strikes home in these photographs is the culture of caring that these women bring to their job.\ — Don Denton\ \ \ \ \ Globe and MailThis ought to be on the coffee table of every woman health-care worker in the country... gritty documentary feel to [photographs], but unambiguously admiring.\ \ \ \ \ \ Travel Photographers NetworkAn excellent book for any photo library... Photojournalists and nurses will love this book! A real tribute!\ — Paul W. Faust\ \ \ \ \ Hamilton SpectatorA story told in black and white... capture[s] the tapestry of these public and private moments.\ — Lesley Simpson\ \ \ \ \ Spokane Spokesman-Review105 stunning images.\ \ \ \ \ \ Canadian Book Review AnnualStunning black and white photography... a welcome celebration of women on the front lines of life and death in North America.\ \ \ \ \ \ Travel Photographers NetworkAn excellent book for any photo library... Photojournalists and nurses will love this book! A real tribute!\ \ \ \ \ \ E-StreamsRecommended for medical school libraries, large public libraries, and the personal libraries of women working in the medical fields.\ \ \ \ \ \ Victoria Times ColonistWhat really strikes home in these photographs is the culture of caring that these women bring to their job.\ \ \ \ \ \ Hamilton SpectatorA story told in black and white... capture[s] the tapestry of these public and private moments.\ \ \
