TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper Owens,Deirdre Benia
TI  - Medical bondage: race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology 
SN  - 9780820351346
AV  - RG67 .M435 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Gynecology
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - Enslaved women
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Irish American women
KW  - history
KW  - Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation
KW  - Racism
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Enslaved Persons
KW  - Vulnerable Populations
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - scientific racism
KW  - history of medicine
KW  - african american studies
KW  - gynecology
KW  - women's studies
KW  - slavery
KW  - emancipation
KW  - jim crow
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction. American gynecology and black lives --; The birth of American gynecology --; Black women's experiences in slavery and medicine --; Contested relations: slavery, sex, and medicine --; Irish immigrant women and American gynecology --; Historical black superbodies and the medical gaze --; Afterword; 2; b
N2  - 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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