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WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HEALERS. THEY WERE THE unlicensed doctors and anatomists of Western history. They were abortionists, nurses, and counselors. They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging secrets of their uses. They were midwives, travelling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without d
... See moreDeirdre English • Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition): A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics)
Until that moment, Henrietta didn’t know that the treatments had left her infertile. Warning patients about fertility loss before cancer treatment was standard practice at Hopkins, and something Howard Jones says he and TeLinde did with every patient.
Rebecca Skloot • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
40 percent were women of color—most of whom were African American.70 During the Jim Crow era, impoverished Black women in the Deep South were frequently subjected to hysterectomies or tubal ligations against their will and without their knowledge.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
