Medical Bondage Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens.
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TextPublisher: University of Georgia Press, Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)ISBN: 9780820353036Subject(s): Social Science / Women's Studies | Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics | MedicineGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this content on Open Research Library. Summary: 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).
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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).
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