Conduct Unbecoming a Woman Medicine on Trial in Turn-Of-the-Century Brooklyn

Name: Conduct Unbecoming a Woman Medicine on Trial in Turn-Of-the-Century Brooklyn
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ISBN: 9780195139280

ISBN-10: 0195139283

ISBN-13: 9780195139280

Edition: 2000

Authors: Regina Morantz-Sanchez

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In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones. The ensuing avalanche of public outrage gave rise to two trials--one for manslaughter and one for libel--that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. This intricately crafted and mesmerizing piece of history reads like a suspense novel which skillfully examines masculine and feminine…

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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.82" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Regina Morantz-Sanchez is professor of history at the University of Michigan. Her books include Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn and In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Saving the City from Corruption: The Eagle Launches a Campaign



A City Comes of Age



Becoming a Surgeon



Gynecology Becomes a Specialty



Gynecology Constructs the Female Body and a Woman Doctor Responds



""The Lured, the Illiterate, the Credulous and the Self-Defenseless"": Mary Dixon Jones and Her Patients



Prologue: Gynecology on Trial for Manslaughter



Spectacle in Brooklyn



Meanings


Appendix: Bibliography of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones's Medical Writings


Notes


Index