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- catalog abstract "The development of modern medical treatment of women and the related history of women's health in the mid-1800s. McGregor looks not only at the medical figures who devised and practiced the innovative therapies, but also at the history of the patient experience in the development and the professionalization of a medical specialty. In exploring the controversial career of J. Marion Sims. "the father of gynecology," and the history of the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York. McGregor chronicles the emergence of a practice involving previously untried medical techniques and the use of experimentation on patients according to a social hierarchy based on race and sex. Using patient records and archival material from the female governors and administrators at the hospital, here it shows how a new medical practice developed out of the changing patterns and historical experiences of childbirth, as well as out of the context of the social relations of the sexes. Sims's patients were slave women in the antebellum south, poor Irish Immigrants in the industrial North, and upper-class white, Protestant, Manhattan socialites who sought help for their "hysterical" symptoms. During his career, which began in the South and flourished at the Women's Hospital in New York, Sims performed and perfected his technique to "cure" vesico-vaginal fistulas, the tears of childbirth, from which so many women suffered. But Sims achieved these successes on the operating table only after years of practicing his "silver suture" technique on unanesthetized slave women, who he believed "by the nature of their race ... had a specific physiological tolerance for pain unknown to whites".".
- catalog contributor b11059949.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The development of modern medical treatment of women and the related history of women's health in the mid-1800s. McGregor looks not only at the medical figures who devised and practiced the innovative therapies, but also at the history of the patient experience in the development and the professionalization of a medical specialty. In exploring the controversial career of J. Marion Sims. "the father of gynecology," and the history of the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York. McGregor chronicles the emergence of a practice involving previously untried medical techniques and the use of experimentation on patients according to a social hierarchy based on race and sex. Using patient records and archival material from the female governors and administrators at the hospital, here it shows how a new medical practice developed out of the changing patterns and historical experiences of childbirth, as well as out of the context of the social relations of the sexes. Sims's patients were slave women in the antebellum south, poor Irish Immigrants in the industrial North, and upper-class white, Protestant, Manhattan socialites who sought help for their "hysterical" symptoms. During his career, which began in the South and flourished at the Women's Hospital in New York, Sims performed and perfected his technique to "cure" vesico-vaginal fistulas, the tears of childbirth, from which so many women suffered. But Sims achieved these successes on the operating table only after years of practicing his "silver suture" technique on unanesthetized slave women, who he believed "by the nature of their race ... had a specific physiological tolerance for pain unknown to whites".".
- catalog extent "xii, 273 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813525713".
- catalog identifier "0813525721 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "1999 A-349".
- catalog subject "618.1/0092 b 21".
- catalog subject "Generative organs, Female Surgery United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Genital Diseases, Female surgery United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gynecologists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gynecology United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gynecology United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Gynecology history United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gynecology history".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "RG76.S5 M367 1998".
- catalog subject "Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883.".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 S6145MB 1998".
- catalog title "From midwives to medicine : the birth of American gynecology / Deborah Kuhn McGregor.".
- catalog type "text".