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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (186 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780820353036
Acceso:Open Access