Medical Bondage
Owens, Deirdre Cooper
Medical Bondage Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens. - 1 online resource (180 p.)
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Medical Bondage explores how, in the nineteenth century, experimental surgeries on enslaved and laboring women enabled the rise of American gynecology as a medical specialty, and shaped our understanding of race. Merging women's, medical, and social history, the book makes Black and Irish women's lives-not just their bodies-part of an origins story of American medicine (one that has largely been told with an exclusive focus on white male historical actors).
9780820353036
Social Science / Women's Studies
Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics
Medicine
Electronic books.
Medical Bondage Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens. - 1 online resource (180 p.)
Access copy available to the general public.
Medical Bondage explores how, in the nineteenth century, experimental surgeries on enslaved and laboring women enabled the rise of American gynecology as a medical specialty, and shaped our understanding of race. Merging women's, medical, and social history, the book makes Black and Irish women's lives-not just their bodies-part of an origins story of American medicine (one that has largely been told with an exclusive focus on white male historical actors).
9780820353036
Social Science / Women's Studies
Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics
Medicine
Electronic books.