Preface
Section I: Contemporary Issues in Historical Context
Introduction, Ellen D. Baer

1. Nursing's History: Looking Backward and Seeing Forward, Joan Lynaugh
2. The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Nursing Profession, Darlene Clark Hines

Section 2: Identity: The Meaning of Nursing
Introduction, Joan E. Lynaugh

3. Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s, Janet James
4. Discipline, Obedience, and Female Support Groups: Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1915-1918, Douglas Baldwin
5. To Cultivate a Feeling of Confidence: The Nursing of Obstetric Patients, 1890-1940, Sylvia Rinker
6. Midwives as Wives and Mothers: Urban Midwives in the Early Twentieth Century, Linda Walsh

Section 3: The Nature of Power and Authority in Nursing
Introduction, Patricia O. D'Antonio

7. Aspirations Unattained: The Story of the Illinois Training School's Search for University Status, Ellen D. Baer
8. Guarded by Standards and Directed by Strangers: Charleston, South Carolina's Response to a National Health Care Agenda, 1920-1930, Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
9. Strange Young Women on Errands: Obstetric Nursing between Two Worlds, Judith Walzer Leavitt
10. The Physician's Eyes: American Nursing and the Diagnostic Revolution in Medicine, Margarete Sandelowski

Section 4: The Nature of Nursing Knowledge
Introduction, Joan E. Lynaugh

11. Constructing the Mind of Nursing, Diane Hamilton
12. A Legitimate Relationship: Nursing, Hospitals, and Science in the Twentieth Century, Susan Reverby
13. Lavinia Lloyd Dock: The Henry Street Years, Carole A. Estabrooks
14. Delegated by Default or Negotiated by Need? Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and the Process of Clinical Thinking, Julie Fairman

Section 5: Conclusion
Introduction, Sylvia Rinker

15. Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History, Patricia D'Antonio

Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading

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.

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.

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.