Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hen medics: women physicians in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War
  • Necessity's handmaidens: the Army's women contract surgeons of World War I
  • Finding a place in the sun: women Army doctors in World War II
  • Join the Navy and see the world: women Navy doctors in World War II
  • Out of place: women military doctors in Cold War America
  • On the edge of equality: contemporary women military physicians
  • Epilogue.