A compelling reckoning with the Birth of women\'s Health that illuminates the sacrifices of a Young Woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it--until now For more than a century, Dr.
Say Anarcha excavates 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..
Hallman reveals that after helping to spark a patient-centered model of care that continues to improve women\'s lives today, Anarcha lived on as a midwife, nurse, and doctor woman.
Hallman has unearthed the first evidence of Anarcha\'s life that did not come from Sims\'s suspect reports.
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Through tenacious research, J.
The written record would have us believe Anarcha disappeared; she did not.
Little was known about the Woman herself.
Decades later, a groundswell of women objecting to Sims\'s legacy celebrated Anarcha as the mother of gynecology.
One medical text after another hailed Anarcha as the embodiment of the pivotal role that Sims played in the history of surgery.
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.
Statues were built in his honor, but he wasn\'t the hero he had made himself appear to be.
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.
Marion Sims was hailed as the father of Modern gynecology.
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A compelling reckoning with the Birth of women\'s Health that illuminates the sacrifices of a Young Woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it--until now For more than a century, Dr
