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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
... See more“In the mid-1800s, gynecologists experimented with the surgical removal of the clitoris (known as a clitoridectomy) or the ovaries (an oophorectomy) to treat hysteria. Isaac Baker Brown was a well-known gynecologist in England and the president of the Medical Society of London. He recommended clitoridectomy as a treatment for insanity, epilepsy,
... See moreThis makes me so profoundly angry, I find I move into an out of body experience.
“The medical community and society in general too often presume that anyone with a working uterus must want to use it for pregnancy, even when people say that they don’t want to conceive or are done having children.”
Excerpt From
It's Not Hysteria
Dr. Karen Tang
cities need more cozy enchanting late night cafes to work & read from til 1am
“Patients with endometriosis are sometimes told to get pregnant to treat the condition, which is hardly a sustainable long-term plan, especially for patients who don’t want to be pregnant.”
Excerpt From
It's Not Hysteria
Dr. Karen Tang
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
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