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Autore: | Cooper Owens Deirdre Benia <1972-> |
Titolo: | Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / / Deirdre Cooper Owens |
Pubblicazione: | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2017 |
Athens, GA : , : University of Georgia Press, , 2017 | |
©2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
Disciplina: | 174.2/8 |
Soggetto topico: | African Americans - history |
Soggetto geografico: | Gynecology United States History 19th century |
Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation history | |
United States | |
Soggetto non controllato: | History |
scientific racism | |
history of medicine | |
african american studies | |
gynecology | |
women's studies | |
slavery | |
emancipation | |
jim crow | |
Black people | |
Childbirth | |
Gynaecology | |
White people | |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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). |
Titolo autorizzato: | Medical Bondage |
ISBN: | 0-8203-5134-2 |
0-8203-5303-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910258747003321 |
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