The Love Surgeon : A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation / Sarah B. Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez, Sarah B., Author.

Series:

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative organs--Surgery--Ohio--History.

Generative organs.

Gynecologists--Ohio--Biography.

Gynecologists.

Surgeons--Ohio--Biography.

Surgeons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.) : 4 b&w images

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery,” a unique procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother, transforming her into “a horny little house mouse.” Burt did so without first getting the consent of his patients. Yet he was allowed to practice for over thirty years, mutilating hundreds of women in the process. It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Burt as a monstrous aberration, a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein. Yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that’s not the whole story. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment: How was he able to perform an untested surgical procedure? Why wasn’t he obliged to get informed consent from his patients? And why did it take his peers so long to take action? The Love Surgeon is both a medical horror story and a cautionary tale about the limits of professional self-regulation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Janet Phillips, 1981

Introduction. Creepy Surgery Performed on New Moms

Chapter 1. The One in the White Coat, 1921–1978

Chapter 2. Dayton Doctor Develops Corrective Surgery, 1975–1978

Chapter 3. Surgical Development and Regulation

Chapter 4. The Dayton Medical Community Reacts, 1976–1980

Chapter 5. Investigating the Medical Profession in Ohio, 1980–1986

Janet Phillips, 1981–1984

Chapter 6. Turn on Your Radio for the Love Surgeon, 1978–1988

Chapter 7. The Women and the Surgery, 1970–1986

Janet Phillips, 1986–1987

Chapter 8. Tabloid Headlines, 1988–1989

Chapter 9. Love Surgery on Trial

Conclusion: Stock Assumptions

Appendix: Questions to Ask If Considering an Elective Surgery

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9781978800991

1978800991

OCLC:

1182818066