Tenderly Lift Me : Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered.

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Learning the Body -- Standing There -- Side Rails -- Father Damien -- To the Place of Orchids -- Rose Hawthorne Lathrop -- Covering Lilacs -- Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- Elsewhere Sparrows: A Note to Some Physicians -- Rita Marie Magdaleno -- Teaching Women to Speak -- Part 2 -- Sandi Petek -- Village -- Carlyann Markusic -- Story -- Sue Zenko -- What Has Happened -- Joanne Fowler -- One Nurse's Job: Eye Recovery on a Kindergartner -- Rita Richards -- Testimony -- Pat Austin -- A Boat They Float In -- Elfriede Anton -- Underground: A Note to My Brother, Kurt -- Theresa Marcotte Kokrak -- To Save What We Most Love -- Terri Swearingen -- The Evolution of Light: East Liverpool, Ohio, Site of the WTI Incinerator -- Helen Albert -- Juba -- Esther Baker -- Letter to Josephine, 1996 -- Part 3 -- Renaissance Sketchbook: A Woman's Story -- Miscarriage: The Nurse Speaks to the Baby -- Maude Callen -- For Maude Callen: Nurse Midwife, Pineville, South Carolina, 1951 -- Holding Back the World -- Helen Troy -- Letter to Christine: Girl Baby Found, Ohio Hospital, 1958 -- Sylvia Engelhardt -- How I Lost My Job as a Staff Nurse in 1969 Because I Was Pregnant -- August Delivery -- Part 4 -- Hope Chest: What the Heart Teaches -- Carol L. Johnson -- On My Gloves Blood Dries in a Pattern Like Faded Roses in Wallpaper -- At Dusk, Two Women Trace a Heart's River -- Jeannette Price -- Letter to World War I Surgeon Dr. Henry Russell, from Nurse Jeanette Price, September 1929 -- Part 5 -- Nora Mary Carmody McNicholas -- What It Cost to Cross the Atlantic -- Jeanne Bryner -- Becoming a Nurse -- Breathless -- Body of Knowledge: Remembering Diploma Nursing Schools, 1976 -- Letter from Ward Three -- Avanell Arlene Sutherland -- Loving Women -- This Red Oozing.

The Labor of Tenderness -- After the Battle: In a Room Where We Have Tried to Save a Life -- Part 6 -- Butterfly -- Genevieve Schmitt -- Mentally Traumatized Unit: Nursing Assignment, England 1942 -- Phyllis Fischer -- To My Town Came a Snow Storm, Nurse's Diary, City Hospital of Cleveland, Ohio, November, 24, 1950 -- Rebecca Ann Needham Anderson -- Call and Response -- Birch Canoe -- Betty Jane Panchik -- November 1963 -- Hortense Wood -- At Thirteen, I Decide to Become a Nurse -- Warblers -- Jane Ball -- What Nurses Do: The Marriage of Suffering and Healing -- June Elizabeth Conolly -- School Nurse -- Helen Krier -- Christmas Is Another Moon -- Darrell Grace -- When I Tell My Mother I Want to Be a Doctor -- Judy Waid -- Pentimento -- Lynda Arnold -- Begin Again -- Part 7 -- The Sisters of St. Joseph's Hospitallers -- Interview with Sister Denis of St. Joseph's Hospitallers Colony of Montreal, New France, 1694 -- Kate Cumming -- Wait for Morning: From Kate Cumming's Journal -- Jane Stuart Woolsey -- Jane Stuart Woolsey, Union Nurse from Camp, near Alexandria, 1862 -- Nurse's Letter, May 30, 1864, Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C. -- Rebecca Taylor -- A Tribute to Miss Rebecca Taylor upon Retirement after Thirty-Four Years -- Edith Cavell -- Houses Are Burning: Belgium, 1915 -- Part 8 -- If It Weren't For Ears -- The Brain's Soliloquy -- Clay Pigeon -- In Praise of Hands -- Permissions -- Notes on the Text -- Bibliography.

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