Medical Bondage : : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / / Deirdre Cooper Owens.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Athens, GA : : University of Georgia Press,, 2017.
©2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.)
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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).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-157) and index.
ISBN:9780820351346
0820351342
9780820351353
0820351350
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Deirdre Cooper Owens.