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      Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

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          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).

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          01 January 2017
          10.2307/j.ctt1pwt69x
          712c278a-b00e-4ed1-ad72-53af8d600ae5
          5271c428-741f-482e-9174-4c2d86854697 9780820353036

          Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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          Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics,bisacsh:MED033000,Social Science / Women's Studies,bisacsh:SOC028000

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