The trials of Madame Restell

nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime
Nicholas L Syrett
Book - 2023

"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"--

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Main Author: Syrett, Nicholas L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2023.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction --  |t Ann Trow Summers Lohman --  |t A letter to married women --  |t In the family way --  |t Madame Restell's competition --  |t Illegitimacy and infanticide --  |t "A disgrace to her sex" --  |t A.M. Mauriceau, professor of diseases of women --  |t Seduced and abandoned --  |t In the public eye --  |t Doctors against doctors --  |t Nemesis --  |t A reckoning --  |t "End of an infamous life". 
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