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Medical Bondage
- Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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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 19th-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 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals.
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.
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Push Back
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A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, a prominent blogger, and author of the classic How Your Baby Is Born delivers a timely, important, and sure to be headline-making exposé that shines a light on the natural parenting movement and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it.
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A perspective all birth workers should examine
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Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
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In this book, Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the 19th century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile.
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more books about hoodo and atr By black writers!!
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Birth
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important historical work, fascinating and fun
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According the New York Times’ “1619 Project”, America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the “1619 Project” argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism.
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the ultimate downplay
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Who Cooked the Last Supper?
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Without politics or polemics, this brilliant and witty book overturns centuries of preconceptions to restore women to their rightful place at the center of culture, revolution, empire, war, and peace. Spiced with tales of individual women who have shaped civilization, celebrating the work and lives of women around the world, and distinguished by a wealth of research, Who Cooked the Last Supper? redefines our concept of historical reality.
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Waste of Time
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In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?
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CRITICAL LISTENING for 2020!
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A Short History of Medicine
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Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank Gonzalez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine, beginning with the most primitive health-care practices and ending with the technology of modern medicine that we enjoy today. As with all Modern Library Chronicles, A Short History of Medicine is a wonderful primer for anyone interested in the subject.
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Dull and Disorganized
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Viral Justice
- How We Grow the World We Want
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Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day.
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Fantastic book!
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"Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of "No way!" At this pivotal point in history, the idea of Black inferiority should have had a "Going-Out-of-Business Sale." After all, Barack Obama reached America's Promised Land. Yet, as Brainwashed testifies, too many in Black America are still wandering in the wilderness.
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Guidance against the odds.
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Racecraft
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Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed.
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A loose collection of essays
- By Texas Mama on 11-18-21
By: Karen E. Fields, and others
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- Kathleen D
- 08-14-21
something everyone should know re medical history
Well researched book about slavery and immigrants' contribution to gynecological history. Everyone should know this information.
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- Fizzlepop
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Excellent
This book is excellent and gives us a thorough historical background for people who work in reproductive fields to understand the origination’s and understandings of the medical information that we use daily to treat patients.
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- Anna Marie Garcia
- 01-29-22
Very educational and eye opening
This is a very moving book, especially being a female gynecologist.
What the women subjects endured, without the ability to truly consent, has allowed the progression of gynecology to it’s current level. They deserve our deepest gratitude and respect.
While progress has been made in the respect for women’s autonomy, we still have far to go in terms of women being taken seriously in the medical profession for issues related to pelvic pain.
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- Perry
- 01-24-22
An amazing touching and sobering book!
The narrator made it touching and authentic. An amazing documentary on the beginning of modern gynecology in the US through exploitation and abuse of the enslaved African American women- a story that must be heard!
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- olivia moran
- 01-30-23
Are you a birth worker, if so, this is a MUST read!
Excellent. Mind blowing. This is a historically accurate account of how American gynecology was built. If you work in women’s health, this is a must read.
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- kpa
- 02-06-24
Gut-wrenching and so important
It's not exactly an easy listen, but it's also incredibly gratifying to hear this story told insistently with the focus on the racialized women, both Black and Irish, who were not also oppressed and suffering but also survivors. It's an incredibly complicated and nuanced story, and the huge gut-punch of the afterword really brings it home to all of us living in the 21st century.
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- Alex Robbins
- 04-28-21
An Important Read
American Gynecology was built from the blood, sweat, and tears of enslaved black women. This books takes you on a historical journey through black women's pain. It is real. It is raw, and it is detailed. Hearing about the medical subjugation these women had to endure is eye opening. Hearing about the "educated guesses" male doctors made at the expense of enslaved black women, paired with the lack of recognition that many women didn't receive for their contributions is enraging.
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- Jaecey Adams
- 03-22-21
Very informative and makes me furious
The origins of gynecology are based on slavery, rape and obstetrical violence towards black, Irish and other unfortunate women. I’m glad to be headed towards becoming a female gynecologist to help stop these atrocities!
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-08-20
Important Knowledge
This book was excellent. Dr. Cooper Owens provides history on this important topic, provides context and relevance for today, and also weaves in narratives to remind readers of the humanity.
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- AuthorAnnaBella
- 08-25-20
Sadly, very little has changed.
I am a Registered Nurse with 25 years of experience. Sadly, I have witnessed some of the atrocities inflicted upon black / brown women during the Antebellum Era during the course of my career. I enjoyed this book for the knowledge and truths told. It broke my heart though, to see that very little has changed from the 1800 to 2020.
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