Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens.
2017
RG67.U6 C66 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens.
ISBN
9780820351353 (hardcover)
0820351350 (hardcover)
9780820354750 (paperback)
0820354759 (paperback)
0820351350 (hardcover)
9780820354750 (paperback)
0820354759 (paperback)
Published
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Language
English
Description
xiv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
RG67.U6 C66 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
174.2/8
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-157) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.