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Author Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell

Title Conduct unbecoming a woman : medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn / Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents 1 Saving the City from Corruption: The Eagle Launches a Campaign, 11 -- 2 A City Comes of Age 35 -- 3 Becoming a Surgeon 61 -- 4 Gynecology Becomes a Specialty 88 -- 5 Gynecology Constructs the Female Body and a Woman Doctor Responds 116 -- 6 "The Lured, the Illiterate, the Credulous and the Self-Defenseless": Mary Dixon Jones and Her Patients 138 -- 7 Prologue: Gynecology on Trial for Manslaughter 156 -- 8 Spectacle in Brooklyn 165 -- 9 Meanings 195
Summary In 1889, a Brooklyn newspaper, the "Daily Eagle", told a story of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager surgeon named Mary Dixon-Jones. The public outrage gave rise to two trials - one for manslaughter and one for libel - that became a late 19th-century sensation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jones, Mary Dixon -- Trials, litigation, etc
Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda
Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda fast
Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda 1828-1908 gnd
Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda. swd
Brooklyn daily eagle -- Trials, litigation, etc
Brooklyn daily eagle fast
The Brooklyn daily eagle gnd
Brooklyn daily eagle. swd
Subject Gynecology -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Gynecology -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Gynecologists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
Women surgeons -- United States -- Biography
Gynecologists -- Malpractice -- United States
Gynecology -- Social aspects -- United States
Gynecology -- history
Gynecology -- legislation & jurisprudence
History, 19th Century
MEDICAL -- Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health.
Women surgeons
Gynecology -- Social aspects
Gynecology -- Law and legislation
Gynecology
Gynecologists -- Malpractice
Gynecologists -- Legal status, laws, etc.
SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80040311
New York (N.Y.)
Subject United States
New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
New York (State)
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
History
Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423746414
9781423746416
9780199729029
0199729026
1280655186
9781280655180
9780195139280
0195139283