Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-276) and index.

Women healers in ancient times -- James (Miranda) Barry -- Dorothea Lynde Dix -- Ann Preston -- Hannah E. Myers Longhorse -- Florence Nightingale -- Clara Barton -- Systems and schools of medicine -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Lydia F. Fowler -- Emily Blackwell -- Sarah P. Remond -- First African-American doctors -- Emeline H. Cleveland -- Marry H. Thompson -- Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska -- Emily Jennings Stowe -- Mary Edward Walker -- Clara A. Swain -- Elizabeth G. Anderson -- Sophia Jex-Blake --- Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Mary Eliza Mahoney -- Marie Josepha Mergler.

Sister Mary J. Dempsey -- Jane A. Delano -- Bertha Van Hoosen -- Elsie Inglis -- Anita N. McGee -- Susan L. Picote -- Annie W. Goodrich -- Golden age of women doctors -- Lillian D. Ward -- Maude Elizabeth S. Abbott -- Alice Hamilton -- Esther P. Lovejoy -- Maria Montessori -- S. Joseph Baker -- Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill -- Elsie Strang L'Esperance -- Margaret Sanger -- Elizabeth Kenny -- Gladys Rowena Dick -- Florence A. Blanchfield -- Karen Danielsen Horney -- Anna Freud -- Helen B. Taussig -- Hattie Elizabeth Alexander -- Women in medical research -- Dorothy Hansine Andersen -- Jane C. Wright -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -- June Osborn -- Bernadine Healy -- Antonia Coello Novello.

Presents biographical sketches highlighting the contributions of women, mostly American, to the field of medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.