Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA.

• List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction Sanitising Spaces: The Body and the Domestic in Public Health Female Bodies at Work: Narratives of the 'Old' Nurse and the 'New' Nurse 'Disciplines of the Flesh': Sexuality, Religion and the Modern Nurse Pathologising the Practitioner: Puerperal Fever in the 1860s Feminising Medicine: The Gendered Politics of Health Dissecting the Feminine: Women Doctors and Dead Bodies in the Late Nineteenth Century Sterile Bodies: Germs and the Gendered Practitioner Notes Bibliography Index