Michael McCormick’s Reviews > A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine > Status Update

I am amazed over and over again by the stories of the lives of these incredible men and women in "A Scientific Revolution." Whenever I am feeling repressed and oppressed and suppressed, I will remember the life of Dorothy Reed Mendenhall and carry on! I am so grateful for this book, so grateful. I pray that my own life, with my hard work of course and the support of positive people around me, will be as significant.

I have learned so much already, especially about how to think anew about philanthropy, especially in light of what I read about Mary Elizabeth Garrett's "coercive philanthropy" which forced the administration of the Johns Hopkins University to admit women on an equal footing as men as soon as their medical school opened, let alone all of her requirements for having only top-notch students enroll. Bravo!