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Summary:

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).

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.

Author/Creator:

Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

Medical bondage: race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology [by Cooper Owens, D.B.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Medical bondage [by Cooper Owens, D.B.] (Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] — ISBN 9780820351353; LCCN 2017013982; OCLC Number 981118004)

Subjects:

Gynecology — United States — History — 19th century

Human experimentation in medicine — United States — History — 19th century

Enslaved women — Medical care — United States — History — 19th century

Irish American women — Medical care — United States — History — 19th century

Gynecology

Human experimentation in medicine

United States

1800-1899

Medical care

Irish American women

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-157) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RG67.U6 C66 2017eb

ISBNs:

9780820351346 (electronic bk.)
0820351342 (electronic bk.)
9780820353036
0820353035
9780820351353 (electronic bk.)
0820351350 (electronic bk.)
9780820354750 [Invalid]
0820354759 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017013982

OCLC Numbers:

1028048592