Lecture explores medical bondage & the birth of gynecology
Dr. Cooper Owens's work moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical col
Dr. Deidre Cooper Owens, Professor of History at Queen’s College–CUNY, will retell the story of the rise of modern gynecology from the perspectives of black enslaved women and Irish immigrant women on Monday, April 2 at 3:30 p.m. at the Sheldon Museum of Art.
