Conduct unbecoming a woman: medicine on trial in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn

1 Saving the City from Corruption: The Eagle Launches a Campaign, 11

2 A City Comes of Age 35

3 Becoming a Surgeon 61

4 Gynecology Becomes a Specialty 88

5 Gynecology Constructs the Female Body and a Woman Doctor Responds 116

6 "The Lured, the Illiterate, the Credulous and the Self-Defenseless": Mary Dixon Jones and Her Patients 138

7 Prologue: Gynecology on Trial for Manslaughter 156

8 Spectacle in Brooklyn 165

9 Meanings 195.