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| Introduction to the Second Edition | |
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| Women and Health in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village | |
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| Childbirth Practices Among Native American Women of New England and Canada, 1600-1800 | |
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| "The Living Mother of a Living Child": Midwifery and Mortality in Postrevolutionary New England | |
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| Women and Health in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| "This Trial Was Sent in Love and Mercy for My Refinement": A Quaker Woman's Experience of Breast Cancer Surgery in 1814 | |
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| Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750-1920 | |
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| The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America | |
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| The Invisible (Invalid) Woman: African-American Women, Illness, and Nineteenth-Century Narrative | |
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| Women and Health in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Issues | |
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| "Something Happens to Girls": Menarche and the Emergence of the Modern American Hygienic Imperative | |
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| From Robust Appetites to Calorie Counting: The Emergence of Dieting Among Smith College Students in the 1920s | |
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| What Ought to Be and What Was: Women's Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Romantic Friends or a "Different Race of Creatures"? The Representation of Lesbian Pathology in Nineteenth-Century America | |
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| "A New Generation of Women": Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female | |
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| Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States | |
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| "About to Meet Her Maker": Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940 | |
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| The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement | |
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| Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s | |
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| Under the Shadow of Maternity: American Women's Responses to Death and Debility Fears in Nineteenth-Century Childbirth | |
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| And the Results Showed Promise ... Physicians, Childbirth, and Southern Black Migrant Women, 1916-1930: Pittsburgh as a Case Study | |
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| Race and "Value": Black and White Illegitimate Babies, in the U.S.A., 1945-1965 | |
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| The Invention of Kleptomania | |
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| Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood: Nineteenth-Century Physicians and "Puerperal Insanity" | |
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| The Training and Practice of Midwives: A Wisconsin Study | |
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| White Nurses, Black Midwives, and Public Health in Mississippi, 1920-1950 | |
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| "Neither for the Drawing Room nor for the Kitchen": Private Duty Nursing in Boston, 1873-1920 | |
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| "They Shall Mount Up with Wings as Eagles": Historical Images of Black Nurses, 1890-1950 | |
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| Interactions Between Public Health Nurses and Clients on American Indian Reservations During the 1930s | |
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| Feminist Showplace | |
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| The Gendering of Empathic Expertise: How Women Physicians Became More Empathic Than Men | |
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| Uncle Sam's Loyal Nieces: American Medical Women, Citizenship, and War Service in World War I | |
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| A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Family Caregiving During the Transformation of Medicine | |
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| Ministries of Healing: Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, and the Religion of Health | |
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| Spreading the Germ Theory: Sanitary Science and Home Economics, 1880-1930 | |
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| Gendered Expectations: Women and Early Twentieth-Century Public Health | |
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| The Growth of Medical Authority: Technology and Morals in Turn-of-the-Century Obstetrics | |
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| "A Complete Disaster": Abortion and the Politics of Hospital Abortion Committees, 1950-1970 | |
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| A Guide for Further Reading | |