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Stuff Mom Never Told You

The Mothers of Gynecology

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

J. Marion Sims is hailed as the father of gynecology, but his legacy is tainted by his experimental surgeries on enslaved women. Cristen and Caroline contextualize Sims' controversy, diagnose medicine's racist past and honor the unsung mothers of gynecolo

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:14.0

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0:23.0

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1:14.0

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1:20.0

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1:25.0

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1:31.0

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1:36.0

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1:55.0

Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from HouseofWorks.com.

2:05.0

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline.

2:08.0

And this episode was inspired by an article posted over on NPR's website from their podcast The Hidden Brain hosted by our favorite, our favorite, Sean Gervidantum.

2:22.0

Yeah.

2:23.0

And it was about the so-called mothers of gynecology.

2:28.0

And we're going to spend the next 45 minutes talking about them.

2:32.0

So I will just hop forward and say that I posted the article on the Stuff Mom Never Told You Facebook page and the response was overwhelming.

2:42.0

Were people not aware of that history?

2:45.0

No, they weren't. I mean, I wasn't either. That was one of the reasons why I wanted to share it with people.

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