Contributors
Foreword, Patricia E. Benner
Preface
Section 1: Those Who do Nurses' Work
1. Introduction, Patricia D'Antonio
2. Family Caregiving in the Nineteenth Century: Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1858-1888, Emily K. Abel
3. The Legacy of Domesticity: Nursing in Early Nineteenth-Century America, Patricia D'Antonio
4. Unheralded Nurses: Male Caregivers in the Nineteenth-Century South, Linda E. Sabin
5. Satisfied to Carry the Bag: Three Black Community Health Nurses' Contributions to Health Care Reform, 1900-1937, Marie O. Pitts Mosley

Section 2: Nursing's Ambivalent Relationship with Money
6. Introduction, Ellen D. Baer
7. A Sound Economic Basis for Schools of Nursing, Mary Adelaide Nutting
8. Nursing's Divided Loyalties: An Historical Case Study, Ellen D. Baer
9. "A Necessity in the Nursing World": The Chicago Nurses Professional Registry, 1913-1950, Jean C. Whelan
10. The Cost of Caring: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Visiting Nurse Service, 1909-1953, Diane Hamilton

Section 3: Doing Nurses' Work
11. Introduction, Sylvia D. Rinker
12. Nurses: The Early Twentieth-Century Tuberculosis Preventorium's "Connecting Link," Cynthia A. Connolly
13. "The Steel Cocoon": Tales of the Nurses and Patients of the Iron Lung, 1929-1955, Lynne M. Dunphy
14. Blood Work: Canadian Nursing and Blood Transfusion, 1942-1990, Cynthia Toman
15. Blurring the Boundaries between Medicine and Nursing: Coronary Care Nursing, Circa the 1960s, Arlene W. Keeling
    Section 4: Work and Knowledge
16. Introduction, Joan E. Lynaugh
17. Theory and Practice, Agnes S. Brennen
18. The Nurse-Clinician, Frances Reiter
19. The Development of a Personal Concept, Virginia A. Henderson
20. Clinical Nursing Practices and Patient Outcomes: Evaluation, Evolution, and Revolution, Margaret D. Sovie
21. Historical Analysis of Siderail Use in American Hosptials, Barbara L. Brush and Elizabeth Capezuti

"Each essay stands alone and represents a significant contribution to historical nursing scholarship....Nurses' Work is an enjoyable read, and it is recommended to fellow nurses and others interested in nursing history. The editors and contributors are well-known historians of medicine and nursing....Indeed, their high level of research and originality in this book are what students and professional nurses have come to expect from their writings."--Nursing History Review

"Every nursing student and practicing nurse will be enlightened by reading this work."
-Patricia E. Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN
Professor, Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spirituality
Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Joint Appointment, Department of Physiological Nursing
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Patricia DAntonio, RN, PhD, is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow at the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Associate Editor of Nursing History Review. She is currently working on a book about psychiatric care in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia.

Ellen D. Baer, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the Wallace Gilroy Visiting Professor of Nursing at the University of Miami and Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she held the Hillman Term Professorship in Nursing and where she remains an Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. Dr. Baers research and writing in nursing history have been recognized by the Centennial Nursing Heritage Award from the American Nurses Association, the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association of the History of Nursing, the Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award from the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association, the Agnes Dillon Randolph Award from the University of Virginia, and distinguished alumni awards from New York University and Columbia University.

Sylvia D. Rinker, RN, PhD, is Associate professor of Nursing at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the American Association for the History of Nursing, archivist for the Xi Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau at Lynchburg College, and on the Advisory Board for the Center for the History and Culture of Central Virginia. Dr. Rinker was the Associate Director of the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry at the University of Virginia from its founding in 1991 until 1998. Her highly regarded historical scholarship was recognized by the Teresa Christy Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing. She is currently developing a womens history course entitled Women at Work: Medieval to Modern.

Joan E. Lynaugh, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania where she held the History of Nursing and Health Care Term Professorship. Dr. Lynaugh was the Founder and Director, now Associate Director, of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and the Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She currently chairs the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia. A prolific research, writer, and editor, Dr. Lynaughs distinguished career in nursing has been recognized by the Centennial Nursing Heritage Award from the American Nurses Association, the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association of the History of Nursing, the Hannah Lectureship of the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing, the Agnes Dillon Randolph Award from the University for Virginia, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Rochester.