Blackstock, Uché
Summary: Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACKSTOCK, UCHE BLASyrett, Nicholas L.
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESTELL, MADAME SYRLatta, Sara L.
Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WALMarshall, Linda Elovitz
Summary: "The fascinating story of Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and healthcare as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MARBallour, Amani
Summary: "This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Syria"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALLOUR, AMANI BALGiebink, Patti
Summary: How does a pro-choice doctor who once performed abortions for Planned Parenthood wind up on the opposite side of this embattled issue? Dr. Patricia Giebink was overpowered by God's perspective at a healing conference, becoming a pro-life advocate who repented before millions for doing abortions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus on the Family 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIEBINK, PATTI GIEWilliams, Emma.
Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010