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's li...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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). |
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| Descrición Física: | 1 online resource (186 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780820353036 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |