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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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The trials of Madame Restell

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Nicholas L. Syrett

Sub title

nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime

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

Table Of 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"

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Nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime

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