Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: 1850-1890

1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888

2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving

3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Conflicts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals

Part Two: 1890-1940

4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924

5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority

6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century

Emily K. Abel is Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health.