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tipsytarsier's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Rape, Sexual violence, and Slavery
fkshg8465's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
5.0
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Wow! So much to say about this book. Really feeling conflicted. On the one hand, we’ve got this terribly tragic history of a narcissist doctor chasing fame and glory by blatantly and cruelly experimenting on women without their consent ; mostly because they are slaves, who by the way often found themselves at his mercy because of all the many times they’d been raped), and on the other hand, I have to acknowledge that modern gynecology is what it is because of these medically unethical atrocities. I suppose that’s how it often is - progress at the expense of those without a choice.
I was shocked to learn some of the procedures Dr. Simms was trying to do, like clitorectomy to “solve” women’s maturation, angered that he even suggested slicing women’s tongues to keep them from talking so much, and others. What really made me upset is that he had so little interest in gynecology and then decided to exploit women in order to achieve professional stature.
Eye opening, informative, and emotionally disruptive.
Wow! So much to say about this book. Really feeling conflicted. On the one hand, we’ve got this terribly tragic history of a narcissist doctor chasing fame and glory by blatantly and cruelly experimenting on women without their consent ; mostly because they are slaves, who by the way often found themselves at his mercy because of all the many times they’d been raped), and on the other hand, I have to acknowledge that modern gynecology is what it is because of these medically unethical atrocities. I suppose that’s how it often is - progress at the expense of those without a choice.
I was shocked to learn some of the procedures Dr. Simms was trying to do, like clitorectomy to “solve” women’s maturation, angered that he even suggested slicing women’s tongues to keep them from talking so much, and others. What really made me upset is that he had so little interest in gynecology and then decided to exploit women in order to achieve professional stature.
Eye opening, informative, and emotionally disruptive.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Slavery, and Rape
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