Conduct unbecoming a woman
Medical laws and legislation, united states
Women in medicine
Women's health services
Women physicians
Gynecology
Legislation & jurisprudence
Trials, litigation
Legal status, laws
Health and hygiene
Law and legislation
Women
History
In the spring of 1889, a burgeoning Brooklyn newspaper, the Daily Eagle, printed a series of articles that detailed a history of midnight hearses and botched operations performed by a scalpel-eager female surgeon named Dr. Mary Dixon Jones. The ensuing avalanche of public outrage gave rise to two tr…
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