Medical Bondage

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 li...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Owens, Deirdre Cooper
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Georgia Press 2021
Subjects:	History scientific racism history of medicine african american studies gynecology women's studies slavery emancipation jim crow Black people Childbirth Gynaecology White people
Online Access:	644220
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