TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owens, Deirdre Cooper
AB  - 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).
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt1pwt69x
ID  - OAPEN ID: 644220
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1028048592
KW  - History
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  - Black people
KW  - Childbirth
KW  - Gynaecology
KW  - White people
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/357e6dbc-5083-40b7-a04f-224b548c6fac/644220.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30659
PB  - University of Georgia Press
PP  - Athens
PY  - 2017-11-15
SN  - 9780820353036
TI  - Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
ER  - 
