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...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Athens
University of Georgia Press
2017
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |