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100 1 $aMorantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85099703
245 10 $aConduct unbecoming a woman :$bmedicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn /$cRegina Morantz-Sanchez.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1999.
300 $axi, 292 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tSaving the City from Corruption: The Eagle Launches a Campaign --$g2.$tA City Comes of Age --$g3.$tBecoming a Surgeon --$g4.$tGynecology Becomes a Specialty --$g5.$tGynecology Constructs the Female Body and a Woman Doctor Responds --$g6.$t"The Lured, the Illiterate, the Credulous and the Self-Defenseless": Mary Dixon Jones and Her Patients --$g7.$tPrologue: Gynecology on Trial for Manslaughter --$g8.$tSpectacle in Brooklyn --$g9.$tMeanings --$gApp.$tBibliography of Dr. Mary Dixon Jones's Medical Writings.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aVividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America, issues that were catalyzed by the transformation of cities - like Brooklyn - from ordered communities dominated by nineteenth-century bourgeois elites to sprawling, multi-ethnic urban landscapes.
520 8 $aMoreover, the trials unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecological surgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. 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 nineteenth-century women.
650 0 $aGynecology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
600 10 $aDixon Jones, Mary Amanda$xTrials, litigation, etc.
630 00 $aBrooklyn daily eagle$xTrials, litigation, etc.
650 0 $aGynecology$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aGynecologists$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zNew York (State)$xHistory$y19th century.
650 12 $aGynecology$xlegislation & jurisprudence$y19th Century.
650 12 $aGynecology$xhistory$y19th Century.
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
651 0 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80040311
852 00 $boff,hsl$hRG67.U6$iM67 1999