Conduct Unbecoming a Woman - Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn (Paperback, Revised)

Two sensational trials, the first for manslaughter, the second for libel, gripped the city of Brooklyn at the end of the ninetheenth century. In 1892 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle began detailing a history of midnight hearses and botched surgeries performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon, Mary Dixon Jones. What Morantz-Sanchez unravels is a classic whodunit of history. From the patients' bedsides to the operating room, from the news-room to the courthouse, Morantz-Sanchez questions the evidence, recreates motives, and above all uses the trial and medical practice of Dixon Jones to tell a gripping narrative of a remarkable female surgeon operating at the very forefront of American science and medicine and the risks run by both patients and surgeons at the origins of gynaecological surgery.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2000
First published:	December 2000
Authors:	Regina Morantz-Sanchez (Professor of History)
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513928-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Books > Medicine > General issues > Medicolegal issues Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-19-513928-3
Barcode:	9780195139280

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