Joy Neighbors, a wine writer and cemetery blogger, is writing a book about the first woman to survive abdominal/ovarian surgery. She has the writing experience, the research ability, and the contacts to help edit and publish the book. What she doesn't have is the finances. But maybe with a novel approach to funding, she will.
Joy Neighbors discovered the story of medical pioneer Jane Todd Crawford in a rural cemetery. Crawford survived ovarian surgery, in 1809, without anes ...