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Recommended Book – Honourable Healers: Pioneering Women Doctors | Australian Scholarly Publishing

AFMW President Award recipient 2022, Dr Merrilyn Murnane AM has authored the book “Honourable Healers: Pioneering Women Doctor” which is based on the lives of the first medical women in Australia, Constance Stone, USA Elizabeth Blackwell and UK Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. The book is sensitively written and thoroughly researched. We thank Dr Merrilyn Murnane AM for capturing their lives in this book. Purchase of this book for Christmas would make a wonderful gift and spreads the knowledge about these Honourable Healers. Find out where to purchase.

December 8, 2022

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Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing, Cassandra Szoeke | Melbourne University Publishing

In this research-based approach to ageing well, Professor Cassandra Szoeke’s Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Over the past thirty years a team of international investigators has compiled a remarkable amount of data, aiming to raise awareness of modifiable risk factors in women’s health.

September 20, 2022

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