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Author Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- author.

Title Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology / Deirdre Cooper Owens.

Edition Paperback edition.
Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2018.
©2017
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2021835~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  174.28 COO    AVAILABLE
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Description xiv, 165 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Gynecology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved women -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Irish American women -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0820354759 (paperback ; alk. paper)
9780820354750 (paperback ; alk. paper)
9780820351353 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0820351350 (hardback ; alk. paper)
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