Introduction / Rima D. Apple
Women's health : life-cycle issues / Adele E. Clarke
Pathways of health and death / Lois M. Verbrugge
Sexuality and woman's sexual nature / Nancy Sahli
Childbirth in America, 1650 to 1990 / Janet Carlisle Bogdan
Race as a factor in health / Edward H. Beardsley
Historical perspectives on women and mental illness / Nancy Tomes
Surgical gynecology / Judith M. Roy
The professionalization of obstetrics : childbirth becomes a medical specialty / Charlotte G. Borst
Women's reproductive health / SuzannePoirier
Institutionalizing women's health care in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Joan E. Lynaugh
Pictorial essay / Rima D. Apple
Women and sectarian medicine / Naomi Rogers
Self-help and the patent medicine business / Susan E. Cayleff.
Charismatic women and health : Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, and Aimee Semple McPherson / Jonathan M. Butler and Rennie B. Schoepflin
Knowledge and power : health and physical education for women in America / Martha H. Verbrugge
Women's health and public policy / Molly Ladd-Taylor
Women's toxic experience / Anthony Bale
Midwives and history / Judy Barrett Litoff
Physicians / Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Pharmacists / Gregory J. Higby with Teresa C. Gallagher.
1. Women's health: life-cycle issues / Adele E. Clarke. 2. Pathways of health and death / Lois M. Verbrugge. 3. Sexuality and woman's sexual nature / Nancy Sahli. 4. Childbirth in America, 1650 to 1990 / Janet Carlisle Bogdan.
