San Francisco's queen of vice
Subtitle: the strange career of abortionist Inez Brown Burns
By: Lisa Riggin
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781496202079
Subjects: Health; Abortion services; Biography; Clinic managers
Description: "Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of 1940s San Francisco abortionist Inez Brown Burns, who made a fortune by providing her services to desperate women throughout California before the city's newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, exposed the hidden, yet not so secret life of backroom deals, political payoffs and corrupt city cops"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.