Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

9/1/1995 - 8/31/1997

Funding Totals

$128,000.00 (approved)
$127,939.36 (awarded)


Conduct Unbecoming of a Woman: Gender, Professionalism, and the Emergence of Gynecological Surgery in America

FAIN: RH-21194-94

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Regina Morantz-Sanchez (Project Director: October 1993 to November 1997)

To support a history of the emergence of the medical specialty of gynecologicalsurgery in the United States in the late 19th century, which focuses on a libel suit brought by the surgeon Mary Dixon Jones in 1892.