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100 1  Hallman, J. C.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Say Anarcha :|ba young woman, a devious surgeon, and the 
       harrowing birth of modern women's health /|cJ.C. Hallman. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHenry Holt and Company,|c2023. 
300    xxiv, 417 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    "In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of 
       Gynecology"), began several years of experimental 
       surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The
       Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures--
       performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so
       -called "cure"--forever altered the path of women's 
       health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, 
       Sims proclaimed himself the curer of obstetric fistula, a 
       horrific condition that had stymied the medical world for 
       centuries. Parlaying supposed success to the founding of a
       new hospital in New York City--where he conducted 
       additional dangerous experiments on Irish women--Sims went
       on to a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in 
       Europe, becoming one of the world's first celebrity 
       surgeons. Medical text after medical text hailed Anarcha 
       as a pivotal figure in the history of medicine, but little
       was recorded about the woman herself. Through extensive 
       research, author J. C. Hallman has unearthed the first 
       evidence ever found of Anarcha's life that did not come 
       from Sims's suspect reports. With incredible tenacity, 
       Hallman traced Anarcha's path from her beginnings on a 
       Southern plantation to the backyard clinic where she was 
       subjected to scores of painful surgical experiments, to 
       her years after in Richmond and New York City, and to her 
       final resting place in a lonely Virginia forest. When 
       Hallman first set out to find Anarcha, the world was just 
       beginning to grapple with the history of white supremacy 
       and its connection to racial health disparities exposed by
       COVID-19 and the disproportionate number of Black women 
       who die while giving birth. In telling the stories of the 
       "Mother" and "Father" of gynecology, Say Anarcha excavates
       the history of a heroic enslaved woman and deconstructs 
       the biographical smokescreen of a surgeon whom history has
       falsely enshrined as a heroic pioneer. Kin in spirit to 
       The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Hallman's dual 
       biographical narratives tell a single story that corrects 
       errors calcified in history and illuminates the sacrifice 
       of a young woman who changed the world only to be 
       forgotten by it--until now"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Sims, J. Marion|q(James Marion),|d1813-1883. 
600 10 Jackson, Anarcha,|dapproximately 1821-1869. 
650  0 Human experimentation in medicine|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  0 Gynecologists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Fistula, Vesico-vaginal|xTreatment. 
650  0 Gynecology|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Medical ethics|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Enslaved women|zUnited States|vBiography.