Conduct unbecoming a woman : medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn / Regina Morantz-Sanchez.
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TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 1423746414
- 9781423746416
- 9780199729029
- 0199729026
- 1280655186
- 9781280655180
- Jones, Mary Dixon -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Brooklyn daily eagle -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda
- Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda
- Brooklyn daily eagle
- Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda 1828-1908
- The Brooklyn daily eagle
- Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda
- Brooklyn daily eagle
- 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
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Women surgeons -- United States -- Biography
- Gynecologists -- Malpractice -- United States
- Gynecology -- Social aspects -- United States
- Gynecology -- history
- Gynecology -- legislation & jurisprudence
- History, 19th Century
- New York (N.Y.)
- Gynécologie -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Chirurgiennes -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Gynécologues -- Responsabilité professionnelle -- États-Unis
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- 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
- United States
- New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
- New York (State)
- 1800-1899
- 618.1/00973/09034 22
- RG67.U6 M67 2000eb
- WP 11 AA1
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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