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The abortionist of Howard Street : medicine and crime in nineteenth-century New York
Author
Title
The abortionist of Howard Street : medicine and crime in nineteenth-century New York / R. E. Fulton.
ISBN
9781501774829
1501774824
9781501774836
9781501774843
Publication
Ithaca, New York : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
xviii, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Other formats
Online version: Fulton, R. E., 1992- Abortionist of Howard Street. Ithaca [New York] : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 02, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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