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The Abortionist of Howard Street : Medicine and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York
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The Abortionist of Howard Street : Medicine and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York / R.E. Fulton.
ISBN
9781501774836
9781501774829
9781501774843
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (272 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
"A microhistory of abortion in nineteenth-century United States, which tells the story of Josephine McCarty, an abortionist and female physician tried for murder in upstate New York in 1872"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 26, 2024
Contents
Mother and daughter
A cigar girl and a wicked woman
"Bent on making quick money"
"A woman's remedy"
"I went there to perfect myself"
The blockade runner
Mrs. Burleigh, M.D.
The Campbell inquest
The privilege of murder
Mrs. McCarty takes the stand
The unwritten law
The smoking pistol
The representative bad woman.
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History.
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