{"product_id":"from-midwives-to-medicine-deborah-kuhn-mcgregor-9780813525723","title":"From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Midwives to Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e examines the development of modern medical treatment of women and the related history of women's health in the mid-1800s.\u003c\/b\u003e McGregor looks not only at the medical figures who devised and practiced the innovative therapist, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing patient records and archival material from the female governors and administrators at the hospital, \u003ci\u003eFrom Midwives to Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e Sim'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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Kuhn McGregor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813525721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813525723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.97w x 0.71d","brand":"Deborah Kuhn McGregor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112971481343,"sku":"9780813525723","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1dcc37db-7ee2-4419-9563-f4e3e64fa097.jpg?v=1769612188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-midwives-to-medicine-deborah-kuhn-mcgregor-9780813525723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}