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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-157) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820351346 0820351342 9780820353036 0820353035 9780820351353 0820351350 |