Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens.
- Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972-
- Date:
- [2017]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Physical description
xiv, 165 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
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.
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Subjects
- GynecologyUnited StatesHistory19th century
- Human experimentation in medicineUnited StatesHistory19th century
- Enslaved womenMedical careUnited StatesHistory19th century
- Irish American womenMedical careUnited StatesHistory19th century
- Gynecologyhistory
- Enslavementhistory
- Enslaved Personshistory
- Ethics, Researchhistory
- Human Experimentationethics
- Unitied States
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJQC.6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 0820354759
- 9780820354750
- 9780820351353
- 0820351350