{"product_id":"book-h0xd","title":"Say Anarcha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling reckoning with the birth \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof women’s health that illuminates \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe sacrifices of a young woman \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewho changed the world only \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eto be forgotten by it—until now\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first celebrity surgeons. Statues were built in his honor, but he wasn’t the hero he had made himself appear to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSims’s greatest medical claim was the result of several years of experimental surgeries—without anesthesia—on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha; his so-called cure for obstetric fistula forever altered the path of women’s health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne medical text after another hailed Anarcha as the embodiment of the pivotal role that Sims played in the history of surgery. Decades later, a groundswell of women objecting to Sims’s legacy celebrated Anarcha as the “mother of gynecology.” Little was known about the woman herself. The written record would have us believe Anarcha disappeared; she did not. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough tenacious research, J. C. Hallman has unearthed the first evidence of Anarcha’s life that did not come from Sims’s suspect reports. Hallman reveals that after helping to spark a patient-centered model of care that continues to improve women’s lives today, Anarcha lived on as a midwife, nurse, and “doctor woman.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSay Anarcha\u003c\/i\u003e excavates history, deconstructing the biographical smoke screen of a surgeon who has falsely been enshrined as a medical pioneer and bringing forth a heroic Black woman to her rightful place at the center of the creation story of modern women’s health care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt \u0026amp; Company.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49353673474352,"sku":"BDh0xd","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/409398-h0xd-Square.jpg?v=1734350900","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-h0xd","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}