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The forgotten mothers of American gynecology.
The forgotten mothers of American gynecology.

Black enslaved women and poor Irish immigrants were the human test subjects of early gynecological research, but we don’t even know who most of them were. UnTextbooked producer Ruba Memon interviews Deirdre Cooper Owens about her book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology.

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