1. Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health -- 2. Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse -- 3. 'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse -- 4. Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s -- 5. Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics of Health -- 6. Dissecting the Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 7. Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner