Title Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens.

Publication Info.	Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-157) and index.
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.
Note	Print version record.
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).
Subject	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.
	United States.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
	Gynecology. (OCoLC)fst00949684
	Human experimentation in medicine. (OCoLC)fst00963042
	Gynecology -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006176Q000266
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D033281Q000266
	Racism -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D063505Q000266
	Black or African American -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001741Q000266
	Enslaved Persons -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D063948Q000266
	Vulnerable Populations. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D035862
	History, 19th Century. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049672
	United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- Medical bondage. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] 9780820351353 (DLC) 2017013982 (OCoLC)981118004
ISBN	9780820351346 (electronic bk.)
	0820351342 (electronic bk.)
	9780820353036
	0820353035
	9780820351353
	0820351350
	0820351342 (electronic book)

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