Patricia's vision : the doctor who saved sight
Publication Information
New York : Sterling Children's Books, [2020]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary
"Born in 1940s Harlem, Patricia Bath dreamed of being a doctor--even though that wasn't a career option for most women. This biography follows Dr. Bath in her quest to become an ophthalmologist and restore sight to the blind. "Choosing miracles" when everyone else had given up hope, she invented a specialized laser for removing cataracts, becoming the first African American woman doctor to receive a medical patent"--
Subjects
- Ophthalmologists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women inventors > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Eye > Surgery > Juvenile literature.
- Lasers in surgery > History > Juvenile literature.
- Ophthalmologists > Biography.
- Women inventors > Biography.
- African American women > Biography.
- Women > Biography.
- Bath, Patricia, 1942-2019 > Juvenile literature.
- Bath, Patricia, 1942-2019.