Tag: gynecology

  • Women’s History Month Spotlight: The Mothers of Gynecology

    Women’s History Month Spotlight: The Mothers of Gynecology

    The “father of gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, is credited with inventing the precursor to the speculum and discovering a method for repairing fistulas in the 1840s. However, his contributions to modern gynecology were only possible due to his torturous experiments on enslaved black women. These brave women—the mothers of gynecology—were voiceless then. But we can…