Rothman, Claire,  1958- <br/><br/>
The heart specialist / 
by Claire Holden Rothman. 
 - England :  Oneworld Publications,  2011. 
 - 325 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: Canada : Cormorant Books, 2009. 
<br/><br/> Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the'wrong' things--microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests--who rises to the status of one of the world's most celebrated pioneering women doctors. Not only does she break through patriarchal academic barriers; she masters the science of the human heart, becoming a scholar of international fame, all in a place and time inimical to intelligent women. Inspired by the career of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's first female physicians. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781851687947  RM41.95 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women physicians--fiction.<br/>Self-realization in women--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Montreal (Quebec)--Fiction.