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Conduct unbecoming a woman : medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn /

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 sensa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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