There was a time when most people thought women should not be doctors. Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to change that. She found a medical school that accepted her. Then, she earned the highest grades in her class. Elizabeth became the first woman doctor in the United States. Discover how this pioneer in medicine and women's equality changed the world forever.

"A picture book biography that tells the story of Dr. James Barry, born female, who lived as a man from age 18 to his death"--

A biography of the first woman doctor in the United States, who worked in England and America to open the field of medicine to women.

"In graphic novel format, tells the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the career of Elizabeth Blackwell stressing the problems she had to overcome to be a doctor, an all-male profession in the mid-nineteenth century.