Radical Spirits: India's First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions by Nandini Patwardhan

Radical Spirits: India's First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions

Nandini Patwardhan

357 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction emotional informative slow-paced
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In 1883, an eighteen-year-old Indian woman named Anandi Joshee sailed alone from Calcutta to New York with the goal of becoming a doctor. At the time there were no schools for girls in India. Also, the few doctors (who were all male) could not tre...

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