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Irena Koprowska's autobiography chronicles the life and struggles of an immigrant woman who successfully pursued a career while raising a family. In the process, she became an award-winning physician, professor, and research pioneer at a time in history when it was believed a woman's place was in the home.
Born in Warsaw in 1917, Irena Koprowska was married, pregnant, and a physician by the age of twenty-two. Forced to flee the Nazis, first in Poland and then in France, she fled to Brazil in 1940. Four years later she immigrated to the United States. Unable to speak English, she started her academic career as a volunteer at the Department of Pathology at Cornell University Medical College. During the years of her subsequent Research Fellowships at Cornell University Medical College, she worked with George N.
Papanicolaou, inventor of the Pap smear. The two co-authored a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear. She was recognized as "Woman Physician of the Year" by a Gold Medicus Award of the Polish American Society in 1977 and received the Papanicolaou Award of the American Society of Cytology in 1985.
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Women pathologists, Biography, Women in medicine, Women, united states, biography, Pathology, Personal Narratives, Health and Pathology, Femmes pathologistes, Biographies, MEDICAL, Physicians, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Women, economic conditions, Women, social conditions, Immigrants, Assimilation (sociology)People
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A woman wanders through life and science
1997, State University of New York Press
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0791431770 9780791431771
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