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Author Joinson, Carla.

Title Civil War doctor : the story of Mary Walker / Carla Joinson.

Publication Info. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Teen  YA B WALKER MARY J    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 128 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Series Social critics and reformers
Social critics and reformers.
Summary A biography of Mary Edwards Walker who was one of the first women to receive a medical degree in the United States and went on to serve as a doctor to the Union soldiers during the Civil War. Her unconventional and determined life paved the way for generations of women in medicine and beyond.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125) and index.
Contents Independent spirit -- Rejecting conventions -- "I cannot appoint a woman" -- Working without pay -- The soldier's friend -- Prisoner of war -- Prison doctor -- Medal of Honor -- Lecture circuit -- Continuing disappointments -- Return to Oswego.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.4 4.0 114147.
Subject Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919 -- Juvenile literature.
Women physicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Physicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care -- Juvenile literature.
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919.
Physicians -- United States -- Biography.
Women -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Women's rights -- History.
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919.
Physicians, Women -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
History, 19th Century -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
Military Medicine -- history -- United States.
Women's Rights -- history -- United States.
ISBN 9781599350288 hardcover
1599350289 hardcover
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