Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sweating, purging, and a passion for care : the yellow fever nurse in the deep South in the early nineteenth century / Linda Sabin -- Determining children's "best interests" in the midst of an epidemic : a cautionary tale from history / Cynthia Anne Connolly -- Treating influenza 1918 and 2010 : recycled interventions / Arlene W. Keeling -- "An obstinate and sometimes gangrenous sore" : prevention and nursing care of bedsores, 1900 to the 1940s / Helen Zuelzer -- Body, soul, and service : Catholic sister-nurses in late nineteenth and early twentieth century hospitals / Barbara Mann Wall -- Bridging the gaps : collaborative health work in the City of Brotherly Love, 1900-1920 / J. Margo Brooks Carthon -- Filling the gaps in community care : parish nurses working out of congregations / Lisa Zerull -- Obstetric nursing : for the patient or the doctor? / Sylvia Rinker -- Nursing patients with cancer in the 1950s : new issues and old challenges / Brigid Lusk -- Trial and negotiation in a technological system : case study of the Swan-Ganz catheter / Kathleen G. Burke -- Black Canadian nurses and technology / Karen Flynn -- To avoid expense and suffering : public health nurses and the struggle for health services / Rima Apple -- The visit : nurse practitioners and the negotiation of practice / Julie Fairman -- Nursing the borderlands of life : hospice and the politics of health care reform / Joy Buck.