San Francisco's Queen of Vice

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"--

subjects: Health,  Abortion services,  Biography,  Clinic managers,  San francisco (calif.), biography,  Executives,  Criminal Abortion,  History,  History, 20th Century,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Historical,  Women,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Abortion & Birth Control

People: Inez Brown Burns

Places: San Francisco,  California