Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1	Midway between the Pharmacist and the Physician: The Work of the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurses, 1893¿1944
Chapter 2	Practicing Medicine without a License? Nurse Anesthetists, 1900¿1938
Chapter 3	Providing Care in the ¿Hoot Owl Hollers¿: Nursing, Medicine, and the Law in the Frontier Nursing Service, 1925¿1950
Chapter 4	My Treatment Was Castor Oil and Aspirin: Field Nursing among the Navajo in the Four Corners Region, 1925¿1955
Chapter 5	Verbal Orders and Hospital Nursing: Expanding Nurses¿ Scope of Practice in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Chapter 6	Nurse Practitioners and the Prescription Pad, 1965¿1980
Chapter 7	Prescriptive Authority for Advanced Practice Nurses, 1980¿2000
Chapter 8:	Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index