Located in NURSING HISTORY COLLECTION.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Nurses and Physicians in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia -- 2. Competence, Coolness, Courage - and Control -- 3. They Went Nursing - in Early Twentieth-Century America -- 4. Wives, Mothers-and Nurses -- 5. Race, Place, and Professional Identity -- 6. A Tale of Two Associations: White and African American Nurses in North Carolina -- 7. Who Is a Nurse? -- Appendix -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index