TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morantz-Sanchez,Regina Markell
TI  - Conduct unbecoming a woman: medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn 
SN  - 1423746414
AV  - RG67.U6 M67 2000eb
U1  - 618.1/00973/09034 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Jones, Mary Dixon
KW  - Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda
KW  - Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda.
KW  - Brooklyn daily eagle
KW  - Trials, litigation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - The Brooklyn daily eagle
KW  - gnd
KW  - swd
KW  - Gynecology
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Gynecologists
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Women surgeons
KW  - Biography
KW  - Malpractice
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - history
KW  - legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Gynécologie
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Chirurgiennes
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Gynécologues
KW  - Responsabilité professionnelle
KW  - Médecine
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Reproductive Medicine & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Medical
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Women's Health
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - New York
KW  - Brooklyn
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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