"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze."-- Despite training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown found it difficult to navigate the medical maze when she learned she had breast cancer. Her experience shows how our for-profit health-care...

When her commitment-phobic roommate and friend, Graham, suffers multiple injuries from a rock-climbing accident, ER nurse Claire Harper stays home to care for him and starts to fall for this man whose views on life and love are very different from her own.

"With her stammering tongue and quiet ways, Cadence Piper has always struggled to be accepted. After the death of her mother, Cadence sets her heart on becoming a nurse, both to erase the stain her brother has left on the family's honor and to find long-sought approval in the eyes of her father. When Dorothea Dix turns her away due to her young age and pretty face, Cadence finds another way to serve . . . singing to the soldiers in Judiciary Square...

First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives & Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in the demonizing of women healers. With insight and originality, the authors have woven together stories about the witch hunts of the Middle Ages, the emergence of the Popular Health Movement, and an analysis of the contemporary state of medicine in relation to women's rights. In a...