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Regina Morantz-Sanchez. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 292. $30.00.

In the 1970s, women's historians became interested in the history of women doctors. They started with questions of sexual discrimination, examining the obstacles in women's way and their strategies for overcoming them. Moving past this struggle/victory approach, they turned their attention to women doctors' dual identities as women and as physicians. This focus on the tension between gender and professional identity led to studies of women doctors' medical beliefs and practice, the founding of their own all-women's medical schools and hospitals, women doctors' relationship to male doctors and male-run medical institutions, and the interplay between women doctors' professional and personal lives. Regina Morantz-Sanchez was a significant contributor to this scholarship, which helped us to understand just what it meant, both professionally and personally, to be a woman doctor. 1

Morantz-Sanchez's new book adds to this scholarship in important ways: it focuses in depth on one fascinating, nineteenth-century woman doctor while simultaneously revealing incontrovertibly that an understanding of nineteenth-century women doctors provides a window into the history of nineteenth-century American society as well. This is the story of Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones, who practiced medicine in Brooklyn, New York, in the late nineteenth century. Like many other women doctors of her day, Dixon-Jones devoted her practice to women who sought her out for gynecological problems. And like other women doctors of her day, she founded her own women's hospital, the Woman's Hospital of Brooklyn, where she cared for and saved the lives of many of her female patients. . . .

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