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

448 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography health historical challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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For readers of All That She Carried and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this dual biography reckons with the birth of women’s health and brings forth the forgotten Black woman who was at its center. In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims (...

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