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The trials of Madame Restell : nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime / Nicholas L. Syrett.

Summary:
"The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781620977453
  • ISBN: 1620977451
  • Physical Description: viii, 336 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : The New Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Ann Trow Summers Lohman -- A Letter to Married Women -- In the Family Way -- Madame Restell's Competition -- Illegitimacy and Infanticide -- "A Disgrace to Her Sex" -- A.M. Mauriceau, Professor of Diseases of Women -- Seduced and Abandoned -- In the Public Eye -- Doctors Against Doctors -- Nemesis -- A Reckoning -- "End of an Infamous Life".
Subject: Restell, Madame, 1811-1878.
Abortion services > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Abortion > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Women in medicine > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Mauriceau, A. M.
Restell, Madame, 1811-1878 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Abortion) > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Women physicians > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nazareth. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 362.1988 SYR 2023 (Text) 31001101915198 Adult Non Fiction Available -


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