Western medicine has begun a reckoning with its inconvenient pasts, from dethroning medical heroes to an increasing awareness of how doctors have treated colonized and enslaved populations. A statue of the “father of modern gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, was removed from New York City’s Central
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For much of medical history women’s health has been interpreted through the lens of misogyny and myths about “female nature”. But, Elinor Cleghorn argues, women have long been determined to reclaim their bodies