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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Main Author: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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