Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Medical Bondage Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- (-)
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens University of Georgia Press 2017
Athens, GA : 2017.
Materias:
Gynecology > United States > History > 19th century.
Human experimentation in medicine > United States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > Medical care > United States > History > 19th century.
Irish American women > Medical care > United States > History > 19th century.
History
scientific racism
history of medicine
african american studies
gynecology
women's studies
slavery
emancipation
jim crow
Black people
Childbirth
Gynaecology
White people
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