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Author:

Syrett, Nicholas L., author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The New Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

viii, 336 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Restell,--Madame,--1811-1878.
Mauriceau, A. M.
Restell,--Madame,--1811-1878--Trials, litigation, etc.
Comstock, Anthony,--1844-1915.
Restell,--Madame,--1811-1878
Abortion services--New York--New York--History--19th century.
Abortion--New York--New York--History--19th century.
Women in medicine--New York--New York--Biography.
Trials (Abortion)--New York--New York--History--19th century.
Women physicians--New York--New York--Biography.
Cliniques d'avortement--New York--New York--Histoire--19e siecle.
Femmes en medecine--New York--New York--Biographies.
Proces (Avortement)--New York--New York--Histoire--19e siecle.
Femmes medecins--New York--New York--Biographies.
Abortion
Abortion services
Trials
Trials (Abortion)
Women in medicine
Women physicians
New York (State)--New York
1800-1899
Biographies
History
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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".

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.

ISBN:

1620977451
9781620977453

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1336458798

LCCN:

2023020889

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

FPPC224 -- Murphy Helwig Library (Monona)