@article{859641,
      recid = {859641},
      author = {Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia,},
      title = {Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of  American gynecology /},
      pages = {xiv, 165 pages :},
      abstract = {The accomplishments of pioneering American doctors such as  John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman  are well documented. It is also no secret that these  nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental  cesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula  repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. "Medical  Bondage" breaks new ground by exploring how and why  physicians denied these women their full humanity yet  valued them as "medical superbodies" highly suited for  medical experimentation. Even as they were advancing, these  doctors were legitimizing groundless theories related to  whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority  of other races or nationalities. "Medical Bondage" moves  between southern plantations and northern urban centers to  reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race,  health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships  in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges,  and hospitals. -- From publisher's description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/859641},
}