Nursing's history : looking backward and seeing forward / Joan E. Lynaugh -- The intersection of race, class and gender in the nursing profession / Darlene Clark Hine -- Isabel Hampton and the professionalization of nursing in the 1890s / Janet Wilson James -- Discipline, obedience and female support groups : Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1915-1918 / Douglas O. Baldwin -- To cultivate a feeling of confidence : the nursing of obstetric patients, 1890-1940 / Sylvia Rinker -- Midwives as wives and mothers : urban midwives in the early twentieth century / Linda V. Walsh -- Aspirations unattained : the story of the Illinois Training School's search for university status / Ellen D. Baer -- Guarded by standards and directed by strangers : Charleston, South Carolina's response to a national health care agenda, 1920-1930 / Karen Buhler-Wilkerson -- "Strange young women on errands" : obstetric nursing between two worlds / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- The physician's eyes : American nursing and the diagnostic revolution in medicine / Margarete Sandelowski -- Constructing the mind of nursing / Diane Hamilton -- A legitimate relationship : nursing, hospitals, and science in the twentieth century / Susan M. Reverby -- Lavinia Lloyd Dock : the Henry Street years / Carole A. Estabrooks -- Delegated by default or negotiated by need? : physicians, nurse practitioners, and the process of clinical thinking / Julie Fairman -- Revisiting and rethinking the rewriting of nursing history / Patricia O. D'Antonio