Medicine Women: The Story of Early American Women Doctors

A photographic and documentary history of early American women doctors, their trials, tribulations, and triumphs.

Medicine Women is a unique photographic history of early American women doctors on the frontier. Covering a range of subjects, from women in medical school, rural remedies, kitchen table surgery, and first love: marriage or medicine, Cathy Luchetti offers an intimate portrait of the women who braved not only the wilds of the frontier, but the prejudice and alienation of those around them to become doctors. Her descriptions are lively and informative, with first hand accounts and journals and black and white photographs of the memorable women from this period.