Conduct unbecoming a woman : medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn / / Regina Morantz-Sanchez

• Autore: Morantz-Sanchez Regina Markell
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Disciplina: 618.1/00973/09034
• Soggetto topico: Women surgeons - United States; Gynecologists - Malpractice - United States; Gynecology - Social aspects - United States
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2000.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Saving the City from Corruption: The Eagle Launches a Campaign -- 2 A City Comes of Age -- 3 Becoming a Surgeon -- 4 Gynecology Becomes a Specialty -- 5 Gynecology Constructs the Female Body and a Woman Doctor Responds -- 6 "The Lured, the Illiterate, the Credulous and the Self-Defenseless": Mary Dixon Jones and Her Patients -- 7 Prologue: Gynecology on Trial for Manslaughter -- 8 Spectacle in Brooklyn -- 9 Meanings -- Appendix: Bibliography of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones's Medical Writings -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: Regina 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conduct unbecoming a woman
• ISBN: 0-19-771227-4; 9786610655182; 1-280-65518-6; 1-4237-4641-4; 1-60256-749-2; 0-19-972902-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829143703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.