Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistulae repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0820354759
ISBN13:9780820354750
Release Date:July 2018
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:182 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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