02529oam 22005894a 450 991025874700332120221216005701.00-8203-5134-20-8203-5303-5(OCoLC)1028048592(ScCtBLL)5271c428-741f-482e-9174-4c2d86854697(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30246(EXLCZ)99410000000226039920180303d2021 uy 0enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierMedical BondageRace, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology /Deirdre Cooper OwensAthensUniversity of Georgia Press2017Athens, GA :University of Georgia Press,2017.©2017.1 online resource (180 p.)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.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).African AmericanshistoryGynecologyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryNontherapeutic Human ExperimentationhistoryUnited StatesHistoryscientific racismhistory of medicineafrican american studiesgynecologywomen's studiesslaveryemancipationjim crowBlack peopleChildbirthGynaecologyWhite peopleAfrican Americanshistory.174.2/8Cooper Owens Deirdre Benia1972-1269263ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910258747003321Medical Bondage2986847UNINA