Medical Bondage —— Race, Gender, And The Origins Of American Gynecology

----- 医疗奴役：种族，性别和美国妇科的起源

ISBN: 9780820351353 出版年：2017 页码：182 Deirdre Cooper Owens University of Georgia Press

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 fistulae repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical bondage,/em> 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.