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 surgeons

• Elizabeth Blackwell - applied to twenty-nine medical schools before becoming America's first female physician

• Mary Seacole - self-funded her journey to the Crimean War after British officials rejected her nursing services

• Indigenous plant women - whose botanical knowledge became modern pharmaceuticals - without credit

• Black women physicians - who built healthcare systems in Jim Crow America when white institutions refused to serve their communities

• Research scientists - whose groundbreaking discoveries were stolen and published under male names

From 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.

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• Publication Date: December 7, 2025
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• Print Length: 192 Pages
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