- From Hippocrates to Florence Nightingale: The Birth of Modern Nursing 1
- Untrained but Undaunted: The Women Nurses of the Blue and the Gray 36
- The Founding of Early Schools of Nursing in America 54
- The Rise of Scientific Medicine and Its Impact on Nursing 80
- The Not-So-Gay Eighties and Nineties in Nurse Training Schools 97
- Gaslight and Shadow: The Practice of Nursing at the Turn of the Century 123
- Nurses and the War With Spain 143
- The Rise of Public Health Nursing 160
- In Quest of Reform, 1909-1917 178
- Days of Triumph: Nursing in World War I 199
- Boom and Bust, 1920-1933 222
- Public Health Nursing, 1912-1930 247
- Depression Doldrums, 1930-1939 271
- Nursing in the War for the World 297
- Postwar Reappraisal, 1945-1950 324
- Nursing at Midcentury 343
- Minorities in Nursing Strive for Recognition 360
- Toward Professionalism 378
- Politics, Health, and Nurses: The End of Innocence 395
- Nursing in Transition: The Growth of the Health Care Industry 414
- Danger and Opportunity: Health Care Reform and Nursing 439
- Nursing Is Health Care: The Dawn of the 21st Century 460 Index 481