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A Re-evaluation of rendering Legacy conclusion James Marion Sims
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The Story of My Life (Classic Reprint)
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Legacies Lost and Found
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It’s always the same. When I finish a heavily-researched book, I tell myself, “Okay, for the next one just pick something you can chronicle, a story you can live and then tell. Enough with the research already.”
That’s where I was eight years ago, when I stumbled across the term “vesicovaginal fistula.” I looked it up, and promptly fell into the deepest, darkest rabbit hole of my entire career.
I was looking into the biography of someone who had worked on fistula in Africa—or, more accurately, “obstetric fistula,” a catastrophic injury resulting from prolonged obstructed labor that leaves women with a perpetual leak of urine—where the condition is a crisis even today. Some of my earliest reading included articles from modern journals (see here, here, and here) about the ongoing effort to quash—or at least control—a preventable accident of childbirth that is exacerbated by systemic inadequacies in the delivery of healthcare across the continent.
Digital browsing also turned up fistula’s other claim to fame (see here, here, and here): a series of fistula experiments on enslaved women in Alabama—conducted without the use of anesthesia—formed the ur-narrative of the ni