Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780813176277
Pub Date: 16 Nov 2018
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: The University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series
Description:
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.