J. Marion Sims: The Surgeon Who Built the First Hospital for Black Women in the US to Exploit Their Bodies - TalkAfricana

J. Marion Sims: The Surgeon Who Built the First Hospital for Black Women in the US to Exploit Their Bodies - TalkAfricana

J. Marion Sims was a 19th-century American physician who came to be celebrated as the “father of modern gynecology.” But behind his medical legacy lies a deeply disturbing truth. Sims built his reputation by experimenting on enslaved Black women without their consent and without anesthesia, driven by the belief that their bodies could endure pain […] TalkAfricana