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Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology /

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The accomplishments of pioneering American 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 cesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Subjects:
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.
Gynecology > history
Black or African American > history.
Enslaved Persons > history
History, 19th Century
Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation > history
Racism > history
Vulnerable Populations
United States
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Gynecology.
Human experimentation in medicine.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. American gynecology and black lives
  • The birth of American gynecology
  • Black women's experiences in slavery and medicine
  • Contested relations: slavery, sex, and medicine
  • Irish immigrant women and American gynecology
  • Historical black superbodies and the medical gaze
  • Afterword.