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You'll be able to get the review from the NY Times Archives,
but not the photo. Photo to NY Times, courtesy of W. Michael Byrd and Linda Clayton.

"Dr. J. Marion Sims, depicted in a painting by Robert Thom,
is consideredthe father of gynecological surgery. Yet
he . . . was also a surgical exploiter of slave women."
Other Robert Thom medical history illustrations.

From: Trying to Bridge the 'Death Gap' Confronting Minority Groups by John Langone. NY Times. December 19, 2000. Review of the book:

"In their new book, "An American Health Dilemma: A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900"(Routledge), Dr. Linda A. Clayton, a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, and her husband and colleague at Harvard, Dr. W. Michael Byrd, who has studied race bias in health care for 25 years, argue that the role that racism has played in the continued disparities in health care has often been ignored."

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