. The message is clear: we must rethink our society’s heroes within the full context of the oppression, exploitation and, at times, murder that helped them achieve prominence.
Nineteenth-century American surgeon Dr. James Marion Sims, known as the “father of modern gynecology,”, Harriet A. Washington explains how Sims, himself a slave-owner and defender of the slave system, developed surgical techniques after practicing brutal procedures on enslaved Black women and girls without anesthesia or consent. Sims also. He is credited for knowledge acquired through medical exploitation, yet the names of those who suffered are missing from textbooks.
SamirS_H Because some of us are mentally strong enough to understand history, contextualize their lives within the period they lived AND to still appreciate the achievements they made within their field.