The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous “Female Physician” and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime

Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science and a culture writer based in Berlin. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Frieze, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor of <a href="https://silverpress.org/products/after-sex">After Sex</a> (2023), an anthology about reproductive justice.

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Abortion on Trial: On Nicholas L. Syrett’s “The Trials of Madame Restell”

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Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science and a culture writer based in Berlin. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Frieze, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor of <a href="https://silverpress.org/products/after-sex">After Sex</a> (2023), an anthology about reproductive justice.

Edna Bonhomme

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Abortion on Trial: On Nicholas L. Syrett’s “The Trials of Madame Restell”