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Artist Michelle Browder is challenging Montgomery, Alabama’s historical narrative on gynecology, highlighting a more troubled story behind the city’s medical legacy
On The Dose podcast, Michelle Browder honors Sims’ victims and changes the narrative — an important step toward addressing anti-Black racism in health care
Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, is known as the birthplace of gynecology. It’s a brutal history, as the field’s “founding father,” J. Marion Sims, advanced his work through experimentation on enslaved women and babies. Artist and health care activist Michelle Browder has forced a reckoning with this legacy with one clear goal — we need to talk about the mothers.
On the newest episode of The Dose podcast, host Joel Bervell talks to Browder about...
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