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Medical Bondage Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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).
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2017: Front list Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101097
- ISBN:
- 9780820353036
- OCLC:
- 1028048592
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