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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the author of the book titled “Lady Doctors:The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine”?
A
Sudha Murthy
B
Jhumpa Lahiri
C
Kavitha Rao
D
Medha Patkar
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In this book, author Kavitha Rao has done much more than write about “lady doctors".

Detailed explanation-2: -Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The First Woman Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. | JAMA | JAMA Network.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first physician to emerge is Imhotep, chief minister to King Djoser in the 3rd millennium bce, who designed one of the earliest pyramids, the Step Pyramid at Ṣaqqārah, and who was later regarded as the Egyptian god of medicine and identified with the Greek god Asclepius.

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