More Than Gold in California - The Life and Work of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Gesa Kirsch Klappentext Mary Bennett Ritter was a farmer's daughter who in the 1880s defied all conventions to pursue her passion: to receive medical training and become a physician. Ritter's memoir is a riveting account of her accomplishments and a revealing peek into an earlier era through her keen sense of observation, humor, savvy, and her courage to challenge gender norms. It is filled with adventures- house calls via horse and buggy rides through the dark streets of Berkeley; a spurned lover's suicide; a near drowning at Pacific Grove Beach; one of the first automobile rides across rugged California dirt roads; intercontinental rail travel; and voyages to the Far East. As the story unfolds, readers encounter the movers and shakers of their times-University of California presidents and families of wealth and influence, including the Scrippses, and the Hearsts, and the Rockefellers.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gesa Kirsch, Gesa E. Kirsch, Mary Bennett Ritter
• Mitarbeit: Gesa Kirsch (Herausgeber), Gesa E. Kirsch (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9781493026517
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-2651-7
• Seiten: 356
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Biographien, Autobiographien