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Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Hen Medics: Women Physicians in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War 7 Chapter 2. Necessity’s Handmaidens: The Army’s Women Contract Surgeons of World War I 32 Chapter 3. Finding a Place in the Sun: Women Army Doctors in World War II 61 Chapter 4. Join the Navy and See the World: Women Navy Doctors in World War II 96 Chapter 5. Out of Place: Women Military Doctors in Cold War America 112 Chapter 6. On the Edge of Equality: Contemporary Women Military Physicians 154 Epilogue 200 Notes 205 Bibliography 233 Index 245 TABLE OF CONTENTS ...

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