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The Visibility GapThe Menopause MovementDespite the many uncomfortable symptoms which may accompany menopause, women often struggle in silence. In episode 9, the season finale of The Visibility Gap, Dr. Jen Ashton and her guests, Dr. Margaret Rutherford and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, discuss the physical and emotional impact of menopause and why it is frequently ignored, including cultural factors and gaps in medical training. The doctors also offer ways for women to receive support during menopause.All Cigna Healthcare products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries o...2025-06-1034 min
Remnants : An Audio DramaReal Remnants 6: Mustard Gas & ChemotherapyThis time, we look at medical innovation in the context of war (and beyond!) and how observation led to the development of a treatment for cancer from a chemical weapon.Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gHlENF6TdVCouRCb4ViW2eX97TZonNOfZlJzlX-Le2E/edit?usp=sharingFor Early Access to the next part of Real Remnants and Remnants' second season when it starts airing, support me on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudiosA note: this episode mentions the development of the polio vaccine. This vaccine's development is...2025-05-2607 minThe Visibility GapRedefining Mental Health Care for WomenIn this episode of The Visibility Gap, Dr. Jen Ashton and her guests discuss what researchers have known for years--that women are about twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression as men. First, guest Joy Allen reflects on cultural stigmas that have impacted women of color for generations. Attempting to break the cycle of dysfunction in her own life, Joy reveals her struggles and victories in both her personal and professional relationships.Dr. Margaret Rutherford and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens round out the conversation w...2025-04-2926 min
The Visibility GapTackling America’s Maternal Mortality RateIn the U.S., pregnancy-related illness and mortality are more likely to affect black women than white or hispanic women. This maternal health crisis, rooted in bias and inequality, is explored by Dr. Jen Ashton and her expert guests in episode 2 of The Visibility Gap.Guest Charity Watkins shares her personal story of diagnosis and discovery of a multi-generational maternal health condition.Next, health experts Dr. Margaret Rutherford and Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens suggest actionable solutions companies can use to mitigate these health challenges.2025-03-0436 min
Where We LiveUncovering the dark history of gynecology and reproductive health in AmericaMortality rates among American Indian and Black women are three times higher than the rate for white women. To understand the racial disparities we see in today’s healthcare system, it could be worth examining the past. Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens is part of a growing group of historians examining the history of race and medicine. She joins us for the hour. In her book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and The Origins of American Gynecology, she explores the early history of reproductive healthcare, where enslaved women were subject to forced experimentation and operations, without anesthesia....2024-12-1241 min
You Ain’t Imagining This!Black Women's Health Matters: Shattering Myths and Fighting Medical RacismIn this eye-opening episode, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Ph.D, a leading historian of medicine, reveals the disturbing history of medical racism against Black women. From the origins of American gynecology during the period of enslavement to the persistence of biased treatment today, Dr. Cooper Owens exposes the systemic issues that Black women face in healthcare. She provides crucial advice on self-advocacy, patient advocacy, and the power of story-sharing as tools to reclaim and protect our health. This is a must-listen for anyone committed to understanding and fighting against medical racism! Note: Hans Hyppolite...2024-09-201h 20
The Human SubjectThe Mothers of GynaecologyIn The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads
connecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins.This is the story of a 17 year old enslaved girl - Anarcha - and the other enslaved women who gave birth to the field of gynaecology. The year is 1845 and Anarcha has just had a baby. But there’s a problem. She is in great pain and her doctor, J Marion Sims, believes nothing can be done about it - at least at first.She has developed a vesico-vaginal fistula, a hole be...2024-08-1828 min
The Black Studies PodcastDeirdre Cooper Owens - Department of History and Africana Studies Institute, University of ConnecticutThis is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Deirdre Cooper Owens, who teaches in the Department of History with an appo...2024-07-0153 min
Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries PodcastEpisode 57 – Slavery Origins of Gynecology with Deirdre Cooper OwensProfessor Deirdre Cooper Owens discusses her book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, which traces the origins of American reproductive health to slave hospitals. As white doctors expanded their practices onto plantations, quickly pregnancy and birth became the focus of their practices. Dr. James Marion Sims with other nineteenth-century gynecologists performed […]2024-05-2800 min
This Podcast Will Kill YouSpecial Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical BondageThe TPWKY book club is back in action, and we’re thrilled to be starting this season’s reading journey with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, reproductive rights advocate, Associate Professor in the University of Connecticut history department, and award-winning author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. The history of science and medicine often focuses on the achievements of wealthy, white male physicians and researchers whose names are etched on medical school buildings, libraries, and dormitories. Rarely do these stories give voice to those whose bodies or labor were exploited in the name of scientific progres...2024-04-231h 06
Matriarchal MedicineReclaiming Autonomy: Thriving Beyond the SystemIn this episode, I share why I ultimately decided to pivot from my desire to be a licensed practitioner to learning at the feet of wise elders and working exclusively outside of the system. This is a conversation that could go on for hours easily, and I feel what is shared here is a great place to start this conversation. RESOURCES:Everyone on this planet can learn something from HERSTORY: WOMANIFESTO by Jane Hardwicke Collings Read HERE or listen here.Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English ...2024-03-0426 min
Getting Better with Jonathan Van NessHow Wrong Was The Supreme Court On Abortion? (ICYMI)2023 was a year of big decisions for the Supreme Court, including recent news that they’ll be reviewing the constitutionality of mifepristone in the coming year. So we’re heading into the archives with this episode recorded right after the Dobbs decision was leaked. Professor Jacqueline Antonovich and Jonathan trace the history of abortion care and reproductive rights across the country in this episode originally recorded in July 2022.
Jacqueline Antonovich is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She is the author of the article, “White Coats, White Hoods: The Medica...2023-12-201h 10
LA Theatre WorksThe Relativity Series Bonus: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Interview for Behind the SheetHear our conversation with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology.This piece is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2023-08-2223 min
The R.A.C.E. PodcastThe Intersection of Reproductive Justice, Academia, and Advocacy with Deirdre Cooper OwensWelcome to Episode 7 of the 2nd season of The R.A.C.E. Podcast. Today’s episode is a continuation of our Race, Healing, & Joy Series. During this series, I will engage Reproductive Justice leaders to spotlight KHA's Race, Healing & Joy initiative and share preliminary insights gathered through more than 40 conversations (including interviews, circles of accountability, and an in-person convening).I am honored to welcome Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens as our guest on today’s podcast.Meet Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens:Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens is a...2023-07-1038 min
Evidence Based Birth®EBB 274: Honoring the Mothers of Gynecology with Michelle Browder— Artist, Activist, and Creator of the Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey MonumentOn this episode of the EBB podcast, we talk with Michelle Browder, artist, activist, and the creator of the Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsy Monument in Montgomery, Alabama, established to honor the three Mothers of Gynecology. Michelle Browder is a nationally recognized artist, activist, and amplifier, bridging the racial divide through art, history, and conversation. Michelle's artwork has been exhibited in art galleries around the world, most notably, the Rosa Parks Museum located in Montgomery, Alabama. In September 2021, she created a monument to honor three enslaved women, Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, in Montgomery, Alabama. This monument is a reminder of t...2023-07-0550 min
You Ain’t Imagining This!Issues in Black Health: Medical Racism and Racial Battle FatigueToday, we've got amazing excerpts from the amazing Black health experts who have appeared on the Espresso Talk Today show! This is your opportunity to hear some of the best discussions, explanations, research, and opinions from experts on Black health! Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens discusses medical racism. Professor William A. Smith discusses Racial Battle Fatigue. These are some of the best excerpts from experts in the field. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Ph.D. on the effects of medical racism and bias. Intro at 3:00. Show at 5:40 Medical Racism Podcast Show William A. Smith, Ph.D. on t...2023-04-2845 min
רונה מראימי | אחת שמודעתפרק 2 | "רונה, תגידי, את היפית ניו אייג'ית כזאתי?"בפרק הזה אני עוסקת בהיא-סטוריה של מודעות לפוריות כי בניגוד לתפיסה שזו איזו שיטה חדשה לא מבוססת היא למעשה היא נחקרה המון ויש לה המון ביסוסים מדעיים. ההיא-סטוריה הולכת עוד לפני 1868! יאפ! בפרק אני משתפת בכמה עובדות מדהימות וחלק קצת עצובות, ומוקירה תודה למי שהייתה שם.
ואם כבר על ההיא-סטוריה, אז נבין על מה השיטה מתבססת ולמה היא עובדת.
ספר על ההיסטוריה של הגניקולוגיה Medical Bondage by Deirdre Cooper Owens.
עוד תכנים ניתן למצוא כאן:
https://fertilityaware.co.za/he/fertility-aware-heb/
אינסטגרם:
https://www.instagram.com/rona.fertilityaware/2022-09-0628 min
Digital AlchemyEngaging the Past, to Build a CommunityIn this episode of Digital Alchemy, Moya Bailey interviews Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, who is The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in History of Medicine. Dr. Cooper Owens goes into detail about her journey of becoming an historian and speaker, and how that journey keeps her grounded, yet committed to teaching community-based history. Her story reminds us of all the challenges and personal costs when building the worlds that we need. Click here for the episode transcript FeaturingMoya Z BaileyDr. Deirdre Cooper Owens...2022-08-3117 min
Getting Better with Jonathan Van NessHow Has White Supremacy F*cked With Reproductive Justice? with Professor Jacki AntonovichWell, here we are. Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and it’s more urgent than ever to rally for reproductive rights across the country—and understand how we got to this point. This week, Professor Jacki Antonovich joins Jonathan to explore the history of abortion care and forced sterilization in the US, how white supremacy has shaped reproductive politics, and why Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman isn’t the historical fiction we may think it is.
CW: This episode includes descriptions of bodily harm and discussion of racist ideologies.
Jacqueline Antonovich is an Assistant Professor of His...2022-07-131h 08
Strands of Our NationDr. Deirdre Cooper-Owens - Episode 2A conversation on the history of Medical Bondage and the impact of racism and white supremacy within the medical field with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, the award-winning author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology.2022-04-0651 min
ohMahART!Sylvie Fortin discusses the Currencies of HospitalityIn this episode, Sylvie Fortin, interdependent curator and Curator-in-Residence at the Bemis Center, shares with us how she became engaged with the concept of the currencies of hospitality, and how it has evolved since its inception.
i don't know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality will be on display at the Bemis Center through Sunday, March 20.
Upcoming Events at the Bemis around the current exhibition:
Deirdre Cooper Owens: Slavery's Hospitality and the Extraction of the Black Body
"Talk" by Jean Charles de Quillacq
Additional reference videos:
...2022-03-1749 min
Teaching Hard HistoryMedical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper OwensThis nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individual enslaved persons for gruesome experimentation evolved into state-sanctioned injustices such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, among others. Award-winning author, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens details a chronology of medical malpractice and racist misconceptions about health while highlighting lesser-known stories of medical innovations by African Americans. Be sure to visit the enhanced episode transcript for additional classroom resources for teaching about medical racism during the Jim Crow era. Like this online exhibition – Dé...2022-03-1740 min
Sessions With SymbaKayla Bitten, The Southern MidwifeIF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ ALONG WITH THE SHOW, YOU CAN ACCESS THIS EPISODE’S TRANSCRIPTION BY CLICKING THIS LINK: . . https://docs.google.com/document/d/10x35pd3-ESf-IG9t4zhiqXtHX7C0Jj3EtBKf4hD6WsA/edit . . Joy In Birthing Foundation www.joyinbirthingfoundation.org provides birth and postpartum doula services to low income families, women in the foster care system, mothers in homeless shelters, pregnant teenagers, survivors of sexual trafficking, and expecting women in the criminal justice system. . . Birth Arts Int...2022-02-251h 15
The Lamaze PodcastAdvocating for Reproductive Health Among Black WomenOn this episode of The Lamaze Podcast, Denise Bolds, MSW, Adv.CD(DONA), CLC, CBE speaks with author and writer Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens about spreading awareness of reproductive health among black women. 2021-11-2450 min
Forward, Comrades!Forward, Comrades: Reproductive Justice with Kate and HayleyIn this week’s episode, Jen and Tessa sit down with Kate and Hayley from our own Feminist Socialist Working group to discuss developments against the right to abortion in the US. They'll talk about recent legal actions in Texas and elsewhere, what changes in Roe v. Wade would have on the state of Wisconsin, and what all this means through the broader lens of Reproductive Justice. We close out the podcast with an overview of upcoming events.Hayley's Links:Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War by William SaletanUndivided Rights - Women of Color Or...2021-09-2958 min
MostlyMax...and other thingsPeeping The Jig (with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens)The jig is orbiting earth. A chat with the amazing and brilliant Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens.
You can find Dr. Cooper Owens on Twitter @drcooperowens and at www.deirdrecooperowens.com.
You can find me on Twitter @MostlyMax and on IG @MostlyMaxandotherthings. 2021-07-081h 28
BirthrightKimberly’s Birth Story: Learning From Our Mother’s GardensWho: Kimberly Seals Allers Birth storyAlma Seals, Kimberly’s motherDr. Deirdre Cooper OwensDr. Neel Shah Episode Description (short/two sentences):On this special episode, Kimberly Seals Allers interviews her mother to hear her own birth story, discusses the history of medical interventions, the role of feminist movements and the power of our matrilineal birthing line. Special guests, historian Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens and Harvard professor, Dr. Neel Shah, add powerful context to the birth practices in the early 1970’s and how the legacy of enslaved Black...2021-06-1634 min
Evidence Based Birth®EBB 174 - The Need for More Black OB/GYN Representation with Dr. Rachel Bervell and Dr. Tamandra MorganOn today’s podcast, we are thrilled to share with you an important interview with the co-founders of The Black OBGYN Project, Dr. Rachel Bervell, and Dr. Tamandra Morgan. Dr. Rachel Bervell, a graduate of Harvard and Georgetown University, is the founder of the nonprofit organization “Hugs for Ghana," and co-founder of “The Fresh Resource Urban Initiative Team” or FRUIT, which addresses food insecurity and underserved communities through health literacy and nutrition courses. Dr. Bervell continues today to be dedicated to vulnerable communities and patients and serves as a medical consultant for the University of California, San Francisco's...2021-04-2850 min
Preparing For Pregnancy After LossEp 20: Honoring The Black Birthing ExperienceThe Black birthing experience in the United States has such deep and rich history. Some aspects are painful and others beautiful, but all of it laced with resistance, a constant fight to reclaim the sacredness of birth, to liberate our bodies, and secure a safer future for our children and families. In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Nicole JeanBaptiste, who’s a mother, Birthworker, Birth Advocate, and Oral Historian. So much of Nicole’s work involves honoring and uplifting the Black birthing experience. She shared with us, the contributions of Black women to the field...2021-03-071h 19
Mirror and a FlashlightModel of CareOur premiere episode begins with Chicago Women’s Health Center’s roots in the feminist health movement of the 1960s. Terri Kapsalis, author and long-time CWHC Collective Member, describes the clinic’s model of care, its historic context, and how it remains at the heart of our work 45-years later.How does CWHC continue to create a place for clients to receive health care that’s actually about care and not profit? What is the historic foundation for CWHC’s approach and why is this approach as important as ever? And...why “mirror and a flashlight”?Join Terr...2020-12-0925 min
UnTextbooked | A history podcast for the futureThe forgotten mothers of American gynecology.James Marion Sims has a complicated legacy. He was a surgeon in the 19th century who, for decades, was heralded as the ‘Father of American Gynecology’ for his contributions to the field, including inventing the speculum. But those innovations came at the expense of the poor and enslaved women that he performed experimental surgeries on. Not much is known about the Black enslaved women and poor Irish immigrants he experimented on, but without their contributions, gynecology would not be what it is today.On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Ruba Memon interviews Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of the...2020-11-0924 min
In Sixteen Years of EndometriosisEp48: Medicine’s Sex and Gender Bias. Part 3Updated 4/2023. Part 3 - Why Is Pain Dismissed in Women and People Assigned Female at Birth?
Amy and Brittany talk about:
—assumptions and stereotypes specifically related to women, people AFAB, and illness
—a brief overview of the history of hysteria and some ways illness in which women were viewed culturally in the past 150 years
—a 2018 theory-guided literature review which looked into how gender bias and gender norms have affected medical treatment
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For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode48
🔗Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick Book by Ma...2020-10-141h 18
The Harper’s PodcastA Litany for SurvivalIn February, Naomi Jackson entered Mount Sinai Hospital to give birth to her son. But when the baby finally came, at her side were only her doula and her sister; the ob-gyn hadn’t believed Jackson when, twenty minutes earlier, she had assured the doctor that the baby was coming soon. This was not the first time that Jackson’s wishes and intuitions had been ignored during her pregnancy, or even during her labor. Only hours earlier, a nurse had upped her dosage of Pitocin shortly after Jackson had asked her to stop. But Jackson is not alone in experiencing such...2020-09-1141 min
Blooming Mamahood016: Black Maternal Death Crisis In The USA With Mitsuzi Stone, RN & Doula, From Birthing NoireIn today’s episode, we will discuss the racial disparities is US healthcare and the continual marginalization and disenfranchisement of black women and their health. We will talk about the transgenerational effects of epigenetic of black women and how they affect their risks and childbirth outcomes. We will also look at the implicit biases of birth professionals and the effects they can have on black women’s childbirth outcomes.
In this episode, we explore:
0:38 Black Maternal Health statistics
4:34 Mitsuzi’s background
5:58 Exploring the relationship between healthcare workers and doulas
8:12 Birthing Noire childbirth education course, Mindfulness program & doula services
11:04 Black maternal health...2020-08-2827 min
GreyscaleSeason 3: Race, Pregnancy & Why It MattersEve Ewing’s “Affirmation”Audre Lorde’s “A Woman Speaks”Alice Walker’s “The Nature of This Flower is to Bloom”PodcastsNATAL: A docuseries about having a baby while Black in the United StatesBirth Stories in ColorBiasMFM survey of providers in which 29% somewhat or strongly agree that bias affects how they care for patientsLimited impact of implicit bias trainingDoulasEmerald Doula group arranges feedback to providers with problematic behaviorsRebecca PolstonDemetra Sere...2020-08-201h 08
Strange CountryJ. Marion SimsDear Readers and Dashhounds, if you have ever suffered from VVF, we are so very sorry and are thankful you live in this Er-ah. But the history that led up to the medical advancement in treating VVF and basically the beginning of all gynecology work had terrible beginnings with one J. Marion Sims. Learn about him in today's episode and the women he took advantage of in trying to make a buck. We hope you learn about racism and its lasting affects in medicine. if you happen to laugh so hard you pee yourself, thank your lucky stars it's...2020-08-0653 min
Black Women's Dept. of LaborBJP NYC 02: A Brief History of American Gynecology with Dr. Deirdre Cooper OwensSeason 1 Episode 2 features an interview with professor Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens. We discuss a brief history of American gynecology and we reflect on what this history means in present day gynecological care, including her own experiences of medical racism.But before we jump into this week's episode, we take a moment of silence for Sha-Asia Washington - a 26 year old Black woman who died during childbirth in early July at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. Say her name. Learn her story. Here is the gofundme page to support her newborn and her family.Deirdre Cooper...2020-07-151h 42
Fertility Awareness Project6. BlackLivesMatter + Anti-Racism in FABM WorkContent warning: this episode may be triggering for Black womxn + BIPOC due to discussion of medical racism toward ensalved Black womxn and other factors.--Loving the podcast? Please... rate + review the pod on Apple Podcasts subscribe to the show on your fave podcast app show a friend how to subscribeConnect with us!Megan McNamaraInstagram @FAMtasticfertility https://www.instagram.com/famtasticfertility/Youtube: FAMtastic Fertility Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/famtasticfertilityNatalie DaudetInstagram @fertilityawarenessproject https://www.instagram.com/fertilityawarenessproject/Website: https://fertilityawarenessproject.ca/Did you know you can become a direct supporter of Body Literacy Babes?Your support of this podcast via...2020-07-0147 min
One Side Dark, Other Side Hard : Black America In the GAP"One Side Dark, Other Side Hard : Black America In the GAP ”
Guest: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Author, "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology"
Black people surviving the health disparities, medical negligence and indifference, stressful work demands, hard choices fears presented existing compounding work, home, children stresses during the pandemic. How do we place this COVID-19 plague in the context of past medical histories of our people? How do we comfort our selves, our children and elders? How do we find the a...2020-05-172h 00
Season of the BitchEpisode 128: History Of PandemicsU THOUGHT WE WOULD GO THROUGH THIS HELLSCAPE WITHOUT SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT? think again!
This week we r talkin' to the SMARTEST pandemic academic we know! Elise Mitchell! She is joining us to chat all about past pandemics AND this one.
Please check out her piece in The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share) and her piece in Black Perspectives(https://www.aaihs.org/if-bitterness-were-a-whetstone-on-grief-history-and-covid-19/).
You can also check out this discussion with some leading historians of race, medicine, and public health: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dr. Samuel Kelton...2020-05-0148 min
Berkeley TalksDeirdre Cooper Owens on gynecology’s brutal roots in slaveryOn Feb. 21, 2020, Deirdre Cooper Owens, a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Nebraska, was on campus to discuss her work tracing the origins of medical racism back to its roots. In her book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the origins of American Gynecology, Cooper Owens reveals the ways the field of gynecology, pioneered by 19th century medical men, was deeply intertwined with the institution of slavery.This talk was part of 400 Years of Resistance to Slavery and Injustice, a yearlong initiative at Berkeley that marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of e...2020-03-131h 25
Talking in the LibrarySeason 2, Episode 6: Force & Freedom (Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson)In this special episode of Talking in the Library, Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Director of the Program in African American History, speaks with Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson about her powerful new book, Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Force and Freedom provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Carter Jackson argues that through tactical violence black abolitionist leaders accomplished what white nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War.
Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson is the Knafel Assistant Professor of...2020-02-2730 min
Dive Into The Powerful Full Audiobook Now, Knowledge Hunters!Behind the Sheet by Charly Evon SimpsonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/419837to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Behind the Sheet
Author: Charly Evon Simpson
Narrator: Danielle Truitt, Jasmine St. Clair, Dominique Morisseau, Monica Mcswain, Karen Malina White, Matthew Floyd Miller, Inger Tudor, Larry Powell, Devon Sorvari, Josh Stamberg
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Release date: February 15, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 11
Genres: Theatre & Radio
Publisher's Summary:
An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840's Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the...2020-02-152h 07
Expand Your Mind With Our Engaging Free AudiobookBehind the Sheet Audiobook by Charly Evon SimpsonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 419837
Title: Behind the Sheet
Author: Charly Evon Simpson
Narrator: Danielle Truitt, Devon Sorvari, Dominique Morisseau, Inger Tudor, Jasmine St. Clair, Josh Stamberg, Karen Malina White, Larry Powell, Matthew Floyd Miller, Monica Mcswain
Format: Unabridged
Length: 02:07:53
Language: English
Release date: 02-15-20
Publisher: LA Theatre Works
Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama
Summary:
An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840's Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the...2020-02-152h 07
Leading with HealthDeirdre Cooper Owens on the History of American GynecologyProfessor Deirdre Cooper Owens joins me to discuss the history of American obstetrics/gynecology and its connections to slavery. Find full show notes here: https://michellemarketingstrategies.com/deirdre-cooper-owens-history-of-american-gynecology/ You can reach out to me at jennifer@michellemarketingstrategies.com, tweet me @MMSJennifer or find me on Instagram @LeadingwithHealth. And if you haven't already, stop by my site and download your free copy of 100 Quotes from Women in Healthcare.2020-02-1044 min
Leading with HealthDeirdre Cooper Owens on the History of American GynecologyProfessor Deirdre Cooper Owens joins me to discuss the history of American obstetrics/gynecology and its connections to slavery. Find full show notes here: https://michellemarketingstrategies.com/deirdre-cooper-owens-history-of-american-gynecology/ You can reach out to me at jennifer@michellemarketingstrategies.com, tweet me @MMSJennifer or find me on Instagram @LeadingwithHealth. And if you haven't already, stop by my site and download your free copy of 100 Quotes from Women in Healthcare.2020-02-1044 min
Black Agenda RadioBlack Agenda Radio - 02.10.20Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Black women have taken the lead in calling for a basic makeover in health care in the United States, a profession that was largely built on experimentation on enslaved Black people, and which has failed to serve Black men, women and children, ever since. And, reading may be fundamental, but much of what young people read in school is a racist lie. We’ll talk with a professor whose reading list...2020-02-1000 min
Black Agenda RadioBlack Agenda Radio - 02.10.20Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Black women have taken the lead in calling for a basic makeover in health care in the United States, a profession that was largely built on experimentation on enslaved Black people, and which has failed to serve Black men, women and children, ever since. And, reading may be fundamental, but much of what young people read in school is a racist lie. We’ll talk with a professor whose reading list...2020-02-1055 min
Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann JohnsonDeirdre Cooper-Owens on Medical Bondage, Racial and Gynecological TraumaWhat She Shares: The relationship between slavery and modern medicine Learning to read between the lines of the medical literature produced during slavery The emotional strain of researching archives of enslaved people Her own gynecological experience as a black woman What You’ll Hear: The racist background of gynecology and obstetrics How the presumption that Black bodies feel less pain is founded in slavery Understanding that the first men practicing gynecological surgeries were interested in protecting an economic system Recognizing the Mothers of gynecology while respecting their privacy Having an embodied since of history and homeland Ex...2020-01-2158 min
True Sex & Wild Love#3 Latham ThomasWhat’s a doula? The beautiful and brilliant Latham Thomas is on a mission to help women take charge of their bodies, their pregnancies, their birth experiences, and their sexualities. In this episode Latham shares what it’s like to guide women through one of the most intimate and profound events of their lives. We also learn about America’s black maternal health crisis: in our country, African American women are 3 – 4 times more likely to die during delivery than white women. This episode is brought to you by Sweet VibrationsVisit https://sweetvibes.toys/ and...2019-07-1800 min
Talking in the LibraryBonus Episode: From Negro Pasts to Afro-Futures (Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens)In a special summer edition of Talking in the Library, Edwin Wolf 2nd Director Dr. Michael Barsanti speaks with the Director of the Program in African American History, Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens about the powerful new exhibition, From Negro Pasts to Afro-Futures: Black Creative Re-Imaginings, which opened at the Library Company of May 24. From Negro Pasts to Afro-Futures draws upon fragments of early Black Americans’ past from their drawings, love letters, poems, songs, speeches, and protests to help visitors grapple with the place of black creative genius in the quest for a people’s liberation. In this bonus episode, Dr. Bars...2019-07-0934 min
Ignite An Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper OwensPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/376034to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why...2019-05-075h 40Get Lost In Your Day With A Addictive Full Audiobook.Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper OwensPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/376034to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2
Genres: Fitness, Diet & Nutrition
Publisher's Summary:
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how...2019-05-075h 40
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in History, WorldMedical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper OwensPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/376034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 7, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and...2019-05-0730 minFind Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in History, WorldMedical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper OwensPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/376034to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why...2019-05-075h 40
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Title: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 05:40:13
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-19
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Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, World, North America, Social Science
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The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage...2019-05-075h 40
Listen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Fitness, Diet & NutritionMedical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper OwensPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/376034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 7, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Publisher's Summary: The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring...2019-05-0730 min
Speaking of Race23 Slavery Ideas About Black Bodies, Interview Of Hilary GreenIn this episode, we restart our march through history, which we left off a few episodes ago back in the 18th century. With our guest, Dr. Hilary Green, we dive into 19th-century American slavery and the idea that black and brown bodies are “closer to nature” than light-skinned bodies. Dr. Green talks about racism, popular ideas of biology, and how our denial of black suffering still resonates today in racial health disparities.
Some resources:
Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 by Hilary Green
More information on Dr. Green’s walking tour of the University of Alabama Campus...2019-02-1432 min
ASHP PodcastMonuments As: History, Art, PowerIn this four-speaker panel, professors, artists, and activists delve into the ongoing re-evaluation of public monuments and memorials, particularly those in New York City (NYC). Dr. Harriet Senie, professor of art history at The Graduate Center CUNY, offers insights into the decision making process of the 2017 Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, an initiative convened to advise NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio about controversial monuments and markers on city-owned land. Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, professor of history at Queens College CUNY, details the work of J. Marion Sims, who developed gynecological procedures by practicing on the bodies of...2018-11-071h 25
Teaching Hard HistoryDiverse Experience of the Enslaved w/ Deirdre Cooper OwensMost students leave school thinking enslaved people lived like characters in Gone with the Wind. Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens reveals the remarkable diversity of lived experiences within slavery and explains the gap between what scholars and students know. Visit the show notes for this episode to find a complete transcript and a list of resources to help you teach the ideas explored by our guests. And educators! Get a professional development certificate for listening to this episode—issued by Learning for Justice. Listen for the special code word, then visit learningforjustice.org/podcastpd.2018-03-1535 min
CUNY TV's Black AmericaBlack America on the Brink with Dr. Diedre Cooper OwensDr. Deirdre Cooper Owens is an Author & Asst. History Professor at Queens College/CUNY. She joins us to discuss her book “Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology".2018-03-111h 00ASHP PodcastMedical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American GynecologyDeirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College CUNY Graduate Center, February 14, 2018Deirdre Cooper Owens reads a section from her recent work, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, which explores the intersections of slavery, capitalism, and medicine and discusses the work with Jennifer Morgan, Professor of History New York University and Sasha Turner Bryson, Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. Owen’s study draws from the journals of doctors like James Marion Sims and examines the labor enslaved women performed as they endured medical experimentation and assisted doctors in developing careers in gynecology. This talk took place on February 14, 2018, spon...2018-03-081h 22