New Monument Honors "Mothers of Gynecology"
“Michelle Browder” by ChinMarshall/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
While J. Marion Sims is often touted as “the father of gynecology,” this art installation, created by Michelle Browder, honors Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy and other unnamed enslaved women who suffered for years as Sims’ experimental subjects as he performed painful surgeries on them without anesthesia, pain relief or consent.
