Leonard Lopate at Large

Mon, Aug 28, 2023 13:00 PM

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Hosts: Leonard Lopate

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J. C. Hallman on Say Anarcha -

Synopsis: For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first celebrity surgeons. Statues were built in his honor, but he wasn’t the hero he had made himself appear to be.??Sims’s greatest medical claim was the result of several years of experimental surgeries—without anesthesia—on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha; his so-called cure for obstetric fistula forever altered the path of women’s health.
Join us when author J. C. Hallman Sexcavates history, deconstructing the biographical smoke screen of a surgeon who has falsely been enshrined as a medical pioneer and bringing forth a heroic Black woman to her rightful place at the center of the creation story of modern women’s health care.

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J. C. Hallman -

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“Sort Of” “Clog Dance” - Charlie Morrow

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https://soundcloud.com/leonard-lopate/j-c-hallman-on-say-anarcha

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