Women doctors in war / Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Graf.

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243)and index.

Introduction -- Hen medics: women physicians in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War -- Necessity's handmaidens: the Army's women contract surgeons of World War I -- Finding a place in the sun: women Army doctors in World War II -- Join the Navy and see the world: women Navy doctors in World War II -- Out of place: women military doctors in Cold War America -- On the edge of equality: contemporary women military physicians -- Epilogue.