LEADER 02529oam 22005894a 450 001 9910258747003321 005 20221216005701.0 010 $a0-8203-5134-2 010 $a0-8203-5303-5 035 $a(OCoLC)1028048592 035 $a(ScCtBLL)5271c428-741f-482e-9174-4c2d86854697 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30246 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002260399 100 $a20180303d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedical Bondage$eRace, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology /$fDeirdre Cooper Owens 210 $aAthens$cUniversity of Georgia Press$d2017 210 1$aAthens, GA :$cUniversity of Georgia Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 327 $aIntroduction. 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. 330 $aMedical 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). 606 $aAfrican Americans$xhistory 607 $aGynecology$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aNontherapeutic Human Experimentation$xhistory 607 $aUnited States 610 $aHistory 610 $ascientific racism 610 $ahistory of medicine 610 $aafrican american studies 610 $agynecology 610 $awomen's studies 610 $aslavery 610 $aemancipation 610 $ajim crow 610 $aBlack people 610 $aChildbirth 610 $aGynaecology 610 $aWhite people 615 $aAfrican Americans$xhistory. 676 $a174.2/8 700 $aCooper Owens$b Deirdre Benia$f1972-$01269263 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910258747003321 996 $aMedical Bondage$92986847 997 $aUNINA