Article: Women Physicians in the Civil War

Esther Hill Hawks

Article: Women Physicians in the Civil War

2000

Article

Note: See p. 86, slide #96.

HathiTrust features a periodical (2000), by Mercedes Graf, that highlights some of the women who committed their medical expertise to the war effort, despite limitations due to their gender. The life and contributions of Esther Hill Hawks - a White missionary teacher, physician, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate from New Hampshire - are considered on pages 92-93.

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