Unauthorized Practice - Women Who Healed the World

by Gina A. Christy

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Discover your next powerful indie read with *Unauthorized Practice – Women Who Healed the World* by Gina A. Christy.

Locked out of medical schools, denied hospital posts, and erased from the record, these women practiced anyway—and changed medicine forever. Through vivid, meticulously researched stories, this nonfiction eBook uncovers more than 50 hidden pioneers: early women physicians, Black doctors building hospitals under Jim Crow, Indigenous healers whose plant knowledge became modern drugs, and researchers whose work was stolen by men.

Perfect for readers who devour narrative nonfiction like *Hidden Figures*, *The Radium Girls*, and *The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks*, this indie title is an inspiring, eye‑opening addition to your eBook TBR.

Publisher Description:

Discover the hidden history of women who transformed medicine - without permission.They weren't allowed in medical schools. They were denied hospital privileges. Their research was published under the names of male colleagues. But they practiced medicine anyway and changed healthcare forever.Unauthorized Practice – Women Who Healed the World, reveals the extraordinary true stories of more than 50 female doctors, healers, and medical pioneers from the 1800s through the mid-1900s who broke into medicine when it was completely closed to women.Meet the women who changed medical history:Dr. James Barry - lived as a man for fifty years to become one of the British Army's top surgeonsElizabeth Blackwell - applied to twenty-nine medical schools before becoming America's first female physicianMary Seacole - self-funded her journey to the Crimean War after British officials rejected her nursing servicesIndigenous plant women - whose botanical knowledge became modern pharmaceuticals - without creditBlack women physicians - who built healthcare systems in Jim Crow America when white institutions refused to serve their communitiesResearch scientists - whose groundbreaking discoveries were stolen and published under male namesFrom battlefield medicine to laboratory research, from the fight against Jim Crow to international networks of female doctors supporting each other across oceans, this meticulously researched narrative reveals how women didn't just enter medicine - they transformed it through public health innovations, germ theory adoption, hospital founding, and institutional building that serves us today.Perfect for readers who loved Hidden Figures, The Radium Girls, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Promotion: Jan 14, 2026

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