2000, ISBN: 9780195139280

Maitland, FL: By the Author, 1968 Book. Very Good -. Stiff Card Covers. First Edition. Autobiography of this Iowa-born early 20th century physician, offering "a full panorama of mode… More...

Maitland, FL: By the Author, 1968 Book. Very Good -. Stiff Card Covers. First Edition. Autobiography of this Iowa-born early 20th century physician, offering "a full panorama of modern medical history". Illustrated. Light exterior wear.., By the Author, 1968, 3, Washington D. C.: National Gallery of Art & Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperbound. As New/As New. Larger Table Book, [9.75 by 12 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 210. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates, &tc Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The National Gallery's blurb notes: "Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 4, 1826, the only son of a wealthy businessman. Although his father hoped he would become a physician or enter the world of business, Church persisted in his early desire to be a painter. In 1842-1843 he studied in Hartford with Alexander H. Emmons (1816-1879), a local landscape and portrait painter, and Benjamin H. Coe (1799-after 1883), a well-known drawing instructor. In 1844 Church's father, at last resigned to his son's choice of a career, arranged through his friend, the art patron Daniel Wadsworth, two years of study with Thomas Cole. Church was thus the first pupil accepted by America's leading landscape painter, a distinction that immediately gave him an advantage over other aspiring painters of his generation. From the first, Church showed a remarkable talent for drawing and a strong inclination to paint in a crisp, tightly focused style. In 1845 he made his debut at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York, where he would continue to show throughout his career. Two years later four of his paintings were shown at the American Art-Union, and by that point he was established in New York as one of the most promising younger painters. In 1849, at the age of twenty-three, he was elected to full membership in the National Academy, the youngest person ever so honored. During the late 1840s and early 1850s Church experimented with a variety of subjects, ranging from recognizable views of American scenery, to highly charged scenes of natural drama, to imaginary creations based on biblical and literary sources and much indebted to Cole. Gradually, however, he began to specialize in ambitious works that combined carefully studied details from nature in idealized compositions that had a grandeur and seriousness beyond the usual efforts of his contemporaries. Church traveled widely in search of subjects, first throughout the northern United States and then, in 1853, to South America. Inspired by the writings of the great German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, he spent five months in Colombia and Ecuador. His first full-scale masterpiece, The Andes of Ecuador (1855; Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem), was a four-by-six-foot canvas depicting a vast tropical mountain panorama that astounded viewers with its combination of precise foreground detail and sweeping space. Two years later Church's reputation as America's most prominent landscape painter was secured with the exhibition in New York, London and other cities of Niagara (1857; National Gallery of Art, Washington). A second trip to South America took place that same year and resulted two years later in his most famous painting of the tropics, Heart of the Andes (1859; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).", National Gallery of Art & Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, 5, Olschki. cm. 17 x 24, 130 pp. Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere ?La Colombaria? - Serie Studi Viene ricostruita una brillante personalit? della ?cerchia laurenziana?: il medico e filosofo Pierleone da Spoleto. Il libro fornisce un panorama complesso ed esauriente dei problemi storici della medicina del Quattrocento: il rapporto fra tradizione scolastica e platonismo, la funzione dell? astrologia, il concetto umanistico di imitazione, le discussioni sulla metodologia medica e scientifica. Pier Leone of Spoleto, physician of Lorenzo de? Medici, was one of the most important scientists of the Quattrocento. As a friend of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico, he was interested in the relationship between magic, astrology and practical medicine. But, as a professor at the universities of Pisa and Padua, his chief concern was with didactic order and logical method. His production shows both humanistic and scholastic features. This book provides an accurate reconstruction of his life and works, most of them manuscripts. 260 gr. 130 p. . nuovo. Rilegato. 2000., Olschki, 2000, 0, New. 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 trials-one for manslaughter and one for libel-that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. &quot;Conduct Unbecoming a Woman&quot; is as mesmerizing as an intricately crafted suspense novel. Jars of specimens and surgical mannequins became common spectacles in the courtroom, and the roughly 300 witnesses that testified represented a fascinating social cross-section of the city's inhabitants, from humble immigrant craftsmen and seamstresses to some of New York and Brooklyn's most prestigious citizens and physicians. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon-Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America. It unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecological surgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. Indeed, the courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one &quot;unruly&quot; woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of 19th-century women. Clearly a extraordinary event in 1892, the cases disappeared from the historical record only a few years later. &quot;Conduct Unbecoming a Woman&quot; brilliantly reconstructs both the Dixon-Jones trials and the historic panorama that was 1890s Brooklyn., 6<

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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 scalp… More...

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 twotrials-one for manslaughter and one for libel-that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. This intricately crafted and mesmerizing piece of history reads like a suspense novel which skillfully examines masculineand feminine ideals in the late 19th century. Jars of specimens and surgical mannequins became common spectacles in the courtroom, and the roughly 300 witnesses that testified represented a fascinating social cross-section of the city''s inhabitants, from humble immigrant craftsmen and seamstressesto some of New York and Brooklyn''s most prestigious citizens and physicians. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon-Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America. It unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecologicalsurgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. Indeed, the courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one ""unruly"" woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of 19th-centurywomen. Clearly a extraordinary event in 1892, the cases disappeared from the historical record only a few years later. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman brilliantly reconstructs both the Dixon-Jones trials and the historic panorama that was 1890s Brooklyn. | Conduct Unbecoming a Woman by Regina Morantz-Sanchez Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > North American History > United States > Modern P10103, Regina Morantz-Sanchez<

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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 scalp… More...

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 twotrials--one for manslaughter and one for libel--that became a late nineteenth-century sensation.Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. This intricately crafted and mesmerizing piece of history reads like a suspense novel which skillfully examines masculineand feminine ideals in the late 19th century. Jars of specimens and surgical mannequins became common spectacles in the courtroom, and the roughly 300 witnesses that testified represented a fascinating social cross-section of the city''s inhabitants, from humble immigrant craftsmen and seamstressesto some of New York and Brooklyn''s most prestigious citizens and physicians. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon-Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America. It unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecologicalsurgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. Indeed, the courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one "unruly" woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of 19th-centurywomen.Clearly a extraordinary event in 1892, the cases disappeared from the historical record only a few years later. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman brilliantly reconstructs both the Dixon-Jones trials and the historic panorama that was 1890s Brooklyn. Books > History > North American History > United States > Modern List_Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

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New. 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… More...

New. 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 trials-one for manslaughter and one for libel-that became a late nineteenth-century sensation. Vividly recreating both trials, Regina Morantz-Sanchez provides a marvelous historical whodunit, inviting readers to sift through the evidence and evaluate the witnesses. &quot;Conduct Unbecoming a Woman&quot; is as mesmerizing as an intricately crafted suspense novel. Jars of specimens and surgical mannequins became common spectacles in the courtroom, and the roughly 300 witnesses that testified represented a fascinating social cross-section of the city's inhabitants, from humble immigrant craftsmen and seamstresses to some of New York and Brooklyn's most prestigious citizens and physicians. Like many legal extravaganzas of our own time, the Mary Dixon-Jones trials highlighted broader social issues in America. It unmasked apprehension about not only the medical and social implications of radical gynecological surgery, but also the rapidly changing role of women in society. Indeed, the courtroom provided a perfect forum for airing public doubts concerning the reputation of one &quot;unruly&quot; woman doctor whose life-threatening procedures offered an alternative to the chronic, debilitating pain of 19th-century women. Clearly a extraordinary event in 1892, the cases disappeared from the historical record only a few years later. &quot;Conduct Unbecoming a Woman&quot; brilliantly reconstructs both the Dixon-Jones trials and the historic panorama that was 1890s Brooklyn., 6<

2000, ISBN: 9780195139280

Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Oxford University Press Inc, 2000