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Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn
Morantz-Sanchez, Regina (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn
Morantz-Sanchez, Regina (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
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.
304 pages, 18 halftones
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 14, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780195139280 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 155 × 229 × 19 mm · 526 g |