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“Until recently, the medical community and the general public didn’t know that he had developed several of his surgical techniques by operating on unanesthetized, enslaved Black women. Sims’s records suggest there were perhaps a dozen women in total, but we know the names of only three of the women: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. Anarcha alone endured
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Our next #MedHumChat, Wed 8/21 at 9pm EST, will explore the dark history of J Marion Sims, "father of gynecology," through powerful poems by @bettinajudd. Joined by @DrOniBee. Poems here: https://t.co/Gn4Mt5Vgi7 Introduction to this history here: https://t.co/O09axlBP6A https://t.co/OXMfMdDUy4