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JONES, Mary Amanda Dixon (1828 – 1908)

JONES, Mary Amanda Dixon (1828 – 1908)

1828 – 1908

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · National Library of Medicine · Public domain

1999 CE

#10429

Conduct unbecoming a woman: Medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.

"In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier 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 …