Cargando…
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 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.