Title The trials of Madame Restell : nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime / Nicholas L. Syrett.

Publication Info.	New York : The New Press, 2023.
	©2023

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Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials	362.1988 SYRETT	Check Shelf
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Description	viii, 336 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index.
Contents	Ann Trow Summers Lohman -- A Letter to Married Women -- In the Family Way -- Madame Restell's Competition -- Illegitimacy and Infanticide -- "A Disgrace to Her Sex" -- A.M. Mauriceau, Professor of Diseases of Women -- Seduced and Abandoned -- In the Public Eye -- Doctors Against Doctors -- Nemesis -- A Reckoning -- "End of an Infamous Life".
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Restell, Madame, 1811-1878.
	Abortion services -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Abortion -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Women in medicine -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	Mauriceau, A. M.
	Restell, Madame, 1811-1878 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
	Trials (Abortion) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Women physicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	Comstock, Anthony, 1844-1915.
	Restell, Madame, 1811-1878 (OCoLC)fst00072507
	Abortion (OCoLC)fst00794582
	Abortion services (OCoLC)fst00794650
	Trials (OCoLC)fst01156290
	Trials (Abortion) (OCoLC)fst01156297
	Women in medicine (OCoLC)fst01177924
	Women physicians (OCoLC)fst01178296
	New York (State) -- New York (OCoLC)fst01204333
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
Added Title	Nineteenth-century America's most infamous female physician and the campaign to make abortion a crime
Other Form:	Online version: Syrett, Nicholas L. Trials of Madame Restell. New York : The New Press, 2023 9781620978092 (OCoLC)1396064712
ISBN	9781620977453 (hardcover)
	1620977451 (hardcover)
	9781620978092 (ebook)

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