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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423746414 9781423746416 9780199729029 0199729026 1280655186 9781280655180 9780195139280 0195139283 |