The Trials of Madame Restell : Nineteenth-Century America's Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime / Nicholas L. Syrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Syrett, Nicholas L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion services--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Abortion services.

Abortion--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Abortion.

Women in medicine--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Women in medicine.

Trials (Abortion)--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Trials (Abortion).

Women physicians--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Women physicians.

Restell, Madame, 1811-1878.

Restell, Madame.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, [2023]

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. Ann Trow Summers Lohman

2. A Letter to Married Women

3. In the Family Way

4. Madame Restell's Competition

5. Illegitimacy and Infanticide

6. "A Disgrace to Her Sex"

7. A.M. Mauriceau, Professor of Diseases of Women

8. Seduced and Abandoned

9. In the Public Eye

10. Doctors Against Doctors

11. Nemesis

12. A Reckoning

13. "End of an Infamous Life"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Publishing in the Public Interest

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781620978092

1620978091

OCLC:

1396064712