Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820351353ISBN-10:820351350UPC:9780820351353Book Category:Medical, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Slavery, WomenSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC7FZ9WHCK
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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 fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820351353ISBN-10:820351350UPC:9780820351353Book Category:Medical, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Slavery, WomenSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC7FZ9WHCK
DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS is the Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and the Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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