Medical Bondage

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351342
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Medical Bondage by : Deirdre Cooper Owens

Download or read book Medical Bondage written by Deirdre Cooper Owens and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 fistula 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 “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.

The Story of My Life ...

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Total Pages : 494 pages
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Book Synopsis The Story of My Life ... by : James Marion Sims

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The Story of My Life

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Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498094160
Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book The Story of My Life written by J. Marion Sims and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.

Behind the Sheet

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822240548
Total Pages : 95 pages
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Book Synopsis Behind the Sheet by : Charly Evon Simpson

Download or read book Behind the Sheet written by Charly Evon Simpson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840s Alabama, Dr. George Barry is on the verge of a miraculous cure: treatment for fistulas, a common but painful complication of childbirth. To achieve his medical breakthrough, Dr. Barry performs experimental surgeries on a group of enslaved women afflicted with the condition. Based on the true story of Dr. J. Marion Sims, the “father of modern gynecology,” BEHIND THE SHEET remembers the forgotten women who made his achievement possible, and the pain they endured in the process.

Tribute to the Late James Marion Sims ...

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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Book Synopsis Tribute to the Late James Marion Sims ... by : William Owen Baldwin

Download or read book Tribute to the Late James Marion Sims ... written by William Owen Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medical Apartheid

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 076791547X
Total Pages : 530 pages
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Book Synopsis Medical Apartheid by : Harriet A. Washington

Download or read book Medical Apartheid written by Harriet A. Washington and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book. "[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book." —New York Times From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust.

Memorial Sketch of the Life of J. Marion Sims, M.D.

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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Book Synopsis Memorial Sketch of the Life of J. Marion Sims, M.D. by : Walker Gill Wylie

Download or read book Memorial Sketch of the Life of J. Marion Sims, M.D. written by Walker Gill Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unwell Women

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593182960
Total Pages : 401 pages
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Download or read book Unwell Women written by Elinor Cleghorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

Obstetric Fistula

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3709189217
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Obstetric Fistula by : Robert F. Zacharin

Download or read book Obstetric Fistula written by Robert F. Zacharin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obstetric fistula is as old as mankind. While the incidence has diminished progressively with better health care in Western societies, the situation has changed little in many developing countries. Fistulae of pelvic organs, often monstrous defects, still are a major complication of child-birth causing misery to uncounted young women, and if they cannot find help in one of the very few hospitals with trained specialists, they became urological cripples losing everything: family, home and job. The magnitude of the problem is illustrated by some figures given by Reginald and Catherine Hamlin-about 700 fistula patients treated each year-a total of over 10,000 cases operated upon in their fistula hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethio pia. Most of these injuries could be prevented by better health care at the village level as some studies have shown conclusively. The incidence of fistula is an indicator of the standard of health and obstetrical care. The author of this book-Obstetric Fistula-is an internationally known Australian gynaecologist who for many years has been interested in all aspects of gynaecological urology, especially urinary stress inconti nence, other forms of involuntary loss of urine, and associated gynaeco logical conditions. He has devised a number of new operations to treat pelvic defects. Robert Zacharin's interest in obstetric fistula was a con sequence of his surgical activity in developing countries.

The Story of My Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of My Life by : James Marion Sims

Download or read book The Story of My Life written by James Marion Sims and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Woman's Surgeon

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Woman's Surgeon by : Seale Harris

Download or read book Woman's Surgeon written by Seale Harris and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Medical Biographies

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Total Pages : 1350 pages
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Book Synopsis American Medical Biographies by : Howard Atwood Kelly

Download or read book American Medical Biographies written by Howard Atwood Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medical Works by Or about James Marion Sims

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Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery

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Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery by : James Marion Sims

Download or read book Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery written by James Marion Sims and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mend

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813176298
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Mend by : Kwoya Fagin Maples

Download or read book Mend written by Kwoya Fagin Maples and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the "father of modern gynecology," and a memorial at his birthplace honors "his service to suffering women, empress and slave alike." These tributes whitewash the fact that Sims achieved his surgical breakthroughs by experimenting on eleven enslaved African American women. Lent to Sims by their owners, these women were forced to undergo operations without their consent. Today, the names of all but three of these women are lost. In Mend: Poems, Kwoya Fagin Maples gives voice to the enslaved women named in Sims's autobiography: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. In poems exploring imagined memories and experiences relayed from hospital beds, the speakers challenge Sims's lies, mourn their trampled dignity, name their suffering in spirit, and speak of their bodies as "bruised fruit." At the same time, they are more than his victims, and the poems celebrate their humanity, their feelings, their memories, and their selves. A finalist for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, this debut collection illuminates a complex and disturbing chapter of the African American experience.

On Call in the Arctic

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779161
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Book Synopsis On Call in the Arctic by : Thomas J Sims

Download or read book On Call in the Arctic written by Thomas J Sims and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting of the Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People in Thomas J. Sims’s On Call in the Arctic, where the author relates his incredible experience saving lives in one of the most remote outposts in North America.Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments—Nome, Alaska. Dr. Sims’ plans to become a pediatric surgeon drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the Army to serve as a M.A.S.H. surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the U.S. Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska.In order to do his job, Dr. Sims had to overcome racism, cultural prejudices, and hostility from those who would like to see him sent packing. On Call in the Arctic reveals the thrills and the terrors of frontier medicine, where Dr. Sims must rely upon his instincts, improvise, and persevere against all odds in order to help his patients on the icy shores of the Bering Sea.

Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108386199
Total Pages : 545 pages
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Download or read book Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology written by Thomas F. Baskett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical profession and represent the historic tradition and language of the speciality. This collection aims to perpetuate the names and contributions of pioneers and offer introductory profiles to the founders in whose steps we follow. This third edition includes 26 new entries, as well as expanded detail, illustration and quotation for existing entries. Biographical data and historical and medical context are discussed for each of the 391 names, with reference to 34 countries, reflecting the field's far reaching origins. More than 1700 original references feature, alongside an extensive bibliography of more than 2500 linked references to assist readers searching for more detailed information. This is a volume for physicians, midwives, medical historians, medical ethicists and all those interested in the history and evolution of obstetrical and gynaecological treatment.