UID:
edoccha_9958362678602883
Format:
1 online resource (180 p.)
ISBN:
9780820351346
,
0820351342
,
9780820351353
,
0820351350
Content:
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).
Note:
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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- Medical bondage. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] ISBN 9780820351353
Language:
English
