Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health by J.C. Hallman

Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health

J.C. Hallman

528 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography health history challenging emotional informative medium-paced
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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 nowFor more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gyne...

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