LEADER 04100nam 2200637 450 001 9910791206503321 005 20230422051125.0 010 $a0-19-771227-4 010 $a9786610655182 010 $a1-280-65518-6 010 $a1-4237-4641-4 010 $a1-60256-749-2 010 $a0-19-972902-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001204515 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087545 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279489 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11306315 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL65518 035 $a(OCoLC)666973359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279489 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001204515 100 $a20161201h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aConduct unbecoming a woman $emedicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn /$fRegina Morantz-Sanchez 210 1$aOxford, [England] ;$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d1999. 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (304p.) 311 $a0-19-513928-3 311 $a0-19-512624-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aRegina Morantz-Sanchez recreates two trials in which Dr Mary Dixon Jones is accused of manslaughter and libel due to two botched operations. The result is a historical whodunnit, with readers invited to sift through evidence and evaluate witnesses. 330 $bIn the spring of 1889, a burgeoning Brooklyn newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones. The ensuing avalanche of public outrage gave rise to two trials--one for manslaughter and one for libel--that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. "Conduct Unbecoming a Woman" is as mesmerizing as an intricately crafted suspense novel. Jars of specimens and surgical mannequins became common spectacles in the courtroom, and the roughly 300 witnesses that testified represented a fascinating social cross-section of the city's inhabitants, from humble immigrant craftsmen and seamstresses to some of New York and Brooklyn's most prestigious citizens and physicians. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon-Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America. It unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecological surgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. Indeed, the courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one "unruly" woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of 19th-century women. Clearly a extraordinary event in 1892, the cases disappeared from the historical record only a few years later. "Conduct Unbecoming a Woman" brilliantly reconstructs both the Dixon-Jones trials and the historic panorama that was 1890s Brooklyn. 606 $aGynecology$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen surgeons$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aGynecologists$xLegal status, laws, etc$zNew York (State)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGynecology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGynecologists$xMalpractice$zUnited States 607 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.) 615 0$aGynecology$xLaw and legislation$xHistory 615 0$aWomen surgeons 615 0$aGynecologists$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aGynecology$xHistory 615 0$aGynecologists$xMalpractice 676 $a618.1/00973/09034 700 $aMorantz-Sanchez$b Regina Markell$01483619 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791206503321 996 $aConduct unbecoming a woman$93758696 997 $aUNINA