Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-Of-The-Century Brooklyn - Paperbackby Regina Morantz Sanchez (Author) In the spring of 1889, Brooklyn's premier 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 trials one for manslaughter and one for libel that became a late nineteenth century sensation. Vividly recreating both