| Table of Contents |
| | Foreword / Janet Bickel | |
| | Acknowledgments | |
| | Introduction / Eliza Lo Chin | |
| 1 | Historical Perspective / Eliza Lo Chin | 1 |
| 2 | Early Pioneers | 11 |
| | Glances and Glimpses / Harriet Hunt | 11 |
| | Letters from Elizabeth Blackwell / Elizabeth Blackwell | 12 |
| | In the Words of Mary Putnam Jacobi / Mary Putnam Jacobi | 13 |
| | The Fortress / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | 14 |
| | Some of My Life Experiences / Bethenia A. Owens-Adair | 14 |
| | From More Than Gold in California / Mary Bennett Ritter | 16 |
| | From Mine Eyes Have Seen / Alfreda Withington | 17 |
| | Petticoat Surgeon / Bertha Van Hoosen | 17 |
| | From A Child Went Forth / Helen MacKnight Doyle | 18 |
| | Fighting for Life / S. Josephine Baker | 20 |
| | From Bowery to Bellevue / Emily Dunning Barringer | 21 |
| | A Woven Fabric / Mary Canaga Rowland | 23 |
| | Woman at the Gate / Gulli Lindh Muller | 25 |
| | A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life / Marion Hilliard | 26 |
| | The Antique Roadshow of a 90-Year-Old / Juliana Swiney | 27 |
| | Sound Investments / Gertrude Russack Sobel | 29 |
| | The First Women at H.M.S. / Doris Rubin Bennett | 29 |
| | I Will Not Pass Away / Mildred Fay Jefferson | 33 |
| | The Beginnings of Women's Health Advocacy / Lila A. Wallis | 34 |
| | From Chivalry and Off-Color Jokes to Acceptance and Respect / Marianne Wolff | 32 |
| | Medicine and Motherhood / Marilyn Heins | 36 |
| | Medical Internship / Grace Foege Holmes | 40 |
| 3 | The Formative Years | 45 |
| | A Youthful Encounter / Ann Klompus Lanzerotti | 45 |
| | From Kitchen Table Wisdom / Rachel Naomi Remen | 48 |
| | Anatomy Lesson / Rebecca Tennant | 51 |
| | Cold Hands / Jennifer Hyde | 54 |
| | Here Is What I Learned / Alison Moll | 56 |
| | Jane / Ambur L. Economou | 56 |
| | Circumstance / Renda Soylemez | 62 |
| | From the Deccan Plateau / Teena Shetty | 63 |
| | Song of the Dying Ova / Sayantani DasGupta | 64 |
| | How I'll Become a Good Physician / Amy L. Dryer | 67 |
| | A Gift / Michelle Monje | 68 |
| | Thirtysomething Meets ER / Lori Gottlieb | 70 |
| | Freckles / Jennifer Best | 72 |
| | Summers With My Aunt / Renda Soylemez | 74 |
| | The Discovery Clinic / Melanie M. Watkins | 76 |
| 4 | Life in the Trenches: Internship and Residency | 79 |
| | Unknown Alpha / Lori E. Summers | 79 |
| | Birthday / Melissa Fischer | 83 |
| | How I Survived Residency / Nassim Assefi | 85 |
| | Necessary Journeys / Nancy L. Snyderman | 86 |
| | Post-Call / Sheri Ann Hunt | 89 |
| | We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Men as Medical Mentors / Sayantani DasGupta | 90 |
| | Whine List / Perri Klass | 94 |
| | The Only Night I Cried / Sondra Vazirani | 96 |
| | A Long Road / Elsa Raskin | 97 |
| | A Time for Change: Innovative Pathways for Residency Training / Elizabeth A. Rider | 100 |
| | Lamentation of the Female Academician / Melissa A. Parisi | 102 |
| | But I Do Care / Joan Stroud | 106 |
| 5 | On Doctoring | 109 |
| | In Between Before and After / Katherine Uraneck | 109 |
| | Heartsick / Julia A. McMurray | 112 |
| | My Patient, the Doctor, and Me / Gayatri Devi | 115 |
| | Heart Doctor / Stephanie Nagy-Agren | 118 |
| | Common Ground / Danielle Ofri | 119 |
| | Dawn / Kathleen Franco | 126 |
| | Life Force / Rachel Naomi Remen | 127 |
| | A Doctor Alone With Her Decision / Linda Hawes Clever | 128 |
| | Through the Eyes of a Physician / Preetha Basaviah | 130 |
| | Why You Came to Me / Anju Goel | 132 |
| | Generations / Emily R. Transue | 134 |
| | Finding Beauty in Annie / Teresa Clabots | 142 |
| | A Visit to the Doctor / Deborah Young Bradshaw | 144 |
| | Job Description / Katherine Uraneck | 147 |
| 6 | Mothering and Doctoring | 151 |
| | Mutual Benefits / Rebekah Wang-Cheng | 151 |
| | Doctor's Daughter / Julia E. McMurray | 152 |
| | Conversation Hearts / Janice E. Daugherty | 157 |
| | Monday Morning / Audrey Shafer | 158 |
| | "Mommydoc" / Daphne Miller | 159 |
| | A Mother's Prayer / Sondra S. Crosby | 164 |
| | On Being a Medical Mom / Cynthia Gail Leichman | 170 |
| | Tsunami Baby / Kathleen Dong | 171 |
| | A Patient's Wife / Ruth Cohen | 174 |
| | The Transition Game / Bonnie Salomon | 175 |
| | Interview for Clinician-Educator Position / Stephanie Nagy-Agren | 176 |
| | Spiderlings / Dugan Wiess Maddux | 177 |
| | Teeter-Totter / Marcia Quereau McCrae | 180 |
| | Breast-Feeding: Straddling the Fence Between Work and Home / Rebecca J. Kurth | 181 |
| | A Reminiscence / Patricia Collins Temple | 183 |
| | The Second Road / Eliza Lo Chin | 184 |
| | Patients as Patron Saints / Alison Moll | 185 |
| | Mother's Day / Nalini Juthani | 188 |
| | "To Love and to Work" / Nancy B. Kaltreider | 189 |
| | Balance / Cynthia J. Kapphahn | 189 |
| | Numbing Down / Rebecca Tennant | 192 |
| | Maternity and Medicine / Anne E. Bernstein | 196 |
| | Parenting Without Pregnancy / Toby Jacobowitz | 196 |
| | Body Snatcher / Liza Sharpless Bonanno | 198 |
| | Redefining Motherhood / Karen P. Alexander | 200 |
| | Taking Children Seriously / Jessica Schorr Saxe | 202 |
| 7 | Making Choices | 205 |
| | Finding the Balance Point Between Overdrive and the Mommy Track / Mary Lou Schmidt | 205 |
| | Between Lawn Cuts / Anne Armstrong-Coben | 207 |
| | Not Having Children / Rita Charon | 210 |
| | Missed Opportunities / Barbara Cammer Paris | 214 |
| | Taking Stock / Kathy Kirkland | 214 |
| | Life Choices / Kathleen Dong | 215 |
| | Composing a Life in Medicine / Joyce Rico | 215 |
| | On Packing for the Information Superhighway / Cynthia Rasch | 217 |
| | Thoughts on Time Management / Veronica Piziak | 219 |
| 8 | Barriers | 221 |
| | Glass Ceiling / Bhuvana Chandra | 222 |
| | Why Don't You Quit? / Nancy B. Kaltreider | 223 |
| | Woman in Orthopedic Surgery Stories / Mary Williams Clark | 223 |
| | Life in the Boys' Club / Roberta E. Sonnino | 226 |
| | Professionalism / Rosa E. Cuenca | 229 |
| | The Feminization of American Medicine / Kathryn Ko | 230 |
| | An Interview Tale / Priya Krishna | 230 |
| | Not Easy to Please Woman's Medical Journal | 231 |
| | On Reaching Visible / Susan K. Schultz | 232 |
| | Triple Jeopardy / Livia Shang-yu Wan | 232 |
| | A Minority Perspective / Beverly M. Gaines | 234 |
| | My Path Through Medical School / Barbara K. Pawley | 236 |
| | The Life of Women in Medicine / Barbara R. Sommer | 237 |
| | Leave / Grace H. Elta | 238 |
| | Emotional Conflicts of the Career Woman / Alexandra Symonds | 239 |
| | Kath's Graduation / Kathryn A. Carolin | 242 |
| | An American Experience / Dorina Rose Abdulah | 242 |
| | A Warm Gesture / Name Withheld | 243 |
| | A Lesbian Voice: What Does It Mean to Be a "Dyke Doctor"? / Patricia A. Robertson | 246 |
| 9 | Connections | 251 |
| | The Doctor in the Family / Marie F. Johnson | 251 |
| | Tobacco, Tulips, and Terminal Care / Maryella Desak Sirmon | 255 |
| | The Friendship of Women / Marjorie Spurrier Sirridge | 260 |
| | A Doctor in the Family / Bhuvana Chandra | 262 |
| | The Two-Casserole Test / Linda Hawes Clever | 264 |
| | The Cafeteria / Lou Elizabeth Mac Manus | 267 |
| | Memories of Our Mother / Diane F. Merritt | 268 |
| 10 | Balancing | 271 |
| | August 1994: Letter to My Student / Beth Alexander | 272 |
| | Balancing, Juggling, and Other Feats / Donna L. Parker | 273 |
| | Juggling the Personal and Professional Life / Marcia Angell | 274 |
| | Workday Mornings - Three Weeks / Stephanie Nagy-Agren | 274 |
| | Where Is the Self? / Gayle Shore Moyer | 275 |
| | The Multitude of Little Things / Dorothy V. Whipple | 275 |
| | Is It Worth It? / Nancy B. Kaltreider | 276 |
| | Can It Be Done? / Mary Lou Schmidt | 276 |
| | A Few Thoughts on Part-time Faculty: The Push for the Summit and the Long Climb Down / Charlotte Heidenreich | 281 |
| | Centered in the Deep Connections / Lucy M. Candib | 283 |
| | An Independent Scientist / Linda Ganzini | 286 |
| | How to Do It All at Once / Teresa Clabots | 290 |
| | Late Lunch / Mary Williams Clark | 292 |
| | Balancing Family and Career: Advice From the Trenches / Molly Carnes | 294 |
| | One Page at a Time / Audrey Shafer | 297 |
| | To Rachel / Joan C. Lo | 299 |
| | Pregnancy and the Professional Woman / Amy A. Tyson | 299 |
| | The Changing Role of Physicians as Working Mothers / Marian Korteling Levai | 300 |
| | Reflections on Balance / Jennifer R. Niebyl | 303 |
| | Notes From a Personal Journey / Silvia Wybert Olarte | 304 |
| 11 | Our Families' Perspectives | 307 |
| | Jelly Dr. W. | 307 |
| | From Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer / Sara Lawrence Lightfoot | 308 |
| | Our Medical Marriage / Richard M. Berlin | 309 |
| | From Her Infinite Variety A Lawyer | 310 |
| | What's a Mother For? / Blaise Levai | 312 |
| | Life With Mother, the M.D. / Cynthia Magowan | 314 |
| | What We Have Fashioned Together / Theodore Nadelson, Leon Eisenberg | 315 |
| | I Remember as a Child / Mary Cogan Bromage | 316 |
| | Renuka Gera / Lori Gera | 317 |
| 12 | Reflections | 319 |
| | The Feminization of Medicine / Perri Klass | 319 |
| | Double Helix / Angelee Deodhar | 320 |
| | Identity Crisis / Anne Lipton | 321 |
| | A Personal Journey / Graciela S. Alarcon | 321 |
| | My Experience as a Woman in Medicine / Florence H. Sheehan | 323 |
| | Scopes, Hopes and Learning the Ropes / Christina M. Surawicz | 326 |
| | Defining Ourselves / Carol Merchant | 329 |
| | Looking Good / Martha Stitelman | 329 |
| | What It's Been Like / Kathryn D. Anderson | 330 |
| | Reminiscences of My Medical Career / Michelle Palmieri Warren | 330 |
| | Enjoying the Moment / Catherine Chang | 333 |
| | Navigating the Maze of Academic Medicine / JoAnn Elisabeth Manson | 335 |
| | From Teacher to Psychiatrist With Family / Leah J. Dickstein | 336 |
| | Generation to Generation: Mother-Daughter Physicians / Diane K. Shrier, Lydia A. Shrier | 337 |
| | Afterword / Eliza Lo Chin | 343 |
| | Glossary | 345 |
| | Resources for Women in Medicine | 355 |
| | About the Editor | 357 |
| | About the Contributors | 359 |
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