In Episode 8 Jess covers the "Father of Gynecology" James Marion Sims, his medical practices, his treatment of his patients, his use of Black women as test subjects for his medical experiments, and how we today are taking back control of that narrative!
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/17/603163394/-father-of-gynecology-who-experimented-on-slaves-no-longer-on-pedestal-in-nychttps://wach.com/news/local/descendant-of-marion-sims-support-removal-of-statuehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/19/fact-check-j-marion-sims-did-medical-experiments-black-female-slaves/3202541001/https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaveshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563360/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/j-marion-sims/558248/
