Introduction: studying The Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker
Local hero: The Gross Clinic and our sense of civic identity / Steven Conn
Eakins as witness: the birth of modern surgery, 1844-89 / Mark S. Schreiner, MD
A portrait of ambition: Eakins, The Gross Clinic, and the American Centennial / Kathleen A. Foster
The making of The Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker
The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia and New York, 1875-79 / Kathleen A. Foster
The challenge revisited: The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster
The changing painting: The Gross Clinic in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries / Mark S. Tucker
Conclusion: "then and now" / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker
Appendix: Commentary on The Gross Clinic, 1875-1917.
