Pt. 1. Between two worlds: Nineteenth-century American medicine
Soon the baby died: medical training in nineteenth-century America
American medicine in 1879
Tools of the trade: late-nineteenth-century medical instruments
Do-it-yourself the sectarian way
Pt. 2. The leaven of tender humanity: women enter the medical profession
The female student has arrived: the rise of the women's medical movement
Will there be a monument? Six pioneer women doctors tell their own stories
Co-laborers in the work of the Lord: nineteenth-century Black women physicians
Every woman is a nurse: work and gender in the emergence of nursing
Pt. 3. Her calling in life: the class of 1879 of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Yearbook: The class of '79
Give her knowledge: the class of 1879 in training
Private practice: taking every case to heart
Teaching: for which woman is preeminently fitted
Institutions: wide and fruitful fields
Medical missionaries: ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake
Medical societies: lifted from the ranks of mere pretenders
Family and community life: cordial social recognition
Pt. 4. Relapse/diagnosis: the turn-of-the-century decline of women physicians
So honored, so loved? : the women's medical movement in decline
The promised land: women doctors one hundred years later.
