Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery

"We owe a debt of gratitude to those that went before us. To those that suffered in our name. Without them we would not be here and we would not have the freedoms we now enjoy. Women who endured, who were persecuted and used. Women whose names historians never thought important enough to record, from the witches burned at the stake to the enslaved black women used for medical experimentation. The women unjustly incarcerated in mental health institutions for failing to conform to societal expectations and the women forced to undergo a hysterectomy because of the perceived link between female reproductive organs and mental health." - Dr Sass Brown

Women Under the Knife is an extraordinary history, giving a vivid picture--medical, literary, and sociological--of Victorian society in America and Europe.