Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology -- Deirdre Cooper Owens, Paperback

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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology -- Deirdre Cooper Owens, PaperbackThe accomplishments of pioneering 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 caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistulae 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

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