As
you may know, the speculum was developed via experiments performed
on enslaved Black women.
Dr.
Marion Sims, who conducted many of these experiments, has been called
the “father of modern gynecology” and is credited with inventing
the speculum.
Meanwhile,
the enslaved Black women on whom he experimented have largely been
forgotten. They were experimented on without anaesthesia and without
dignity, and some of them died under his “care”.
Just part of
the history of how Black women's bodies have been treated in the name
of “healthcare".
Anarcha,
Lucy and Betsey were three such women whose names we should, we must,
recall.
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