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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |