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"Remove Physician Statue From NYC Park: Right or Wrong?"
« on: August 26, 2017, 03:36:27 PM »
Marion Simms is considered the father of gynecology for inventing a cure for vesicovaginal fistulas, among other things.  A woman with a vesicovaginal fistula constantly has urine dripping from her vagina.  Now activists are demanding his statues be taken down.  Why?  Because he developed the surgery by experimenting on enslaved women with the disease (after several years of experimentation he cured them).  Simms reported that the women consented to be subjects in the experiments in hope of obtaining a cure; he trained them to assist in the surgeries.

A neutral article
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/884728

An article centering on the protestors:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/protesters-slam-nyc-statue-doctor-experimented-slaves-article-1.3426690

Here is an interesting read on the subject that is pro-Sims:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563360/


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Re: "Remove Physician Statue From NYC Park: Right or Wrong?"
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2017, 03:53:13 PM »
That's a piss-poor reason to take down the statue.
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Re: "Remove Physician Statue From NYC Park: Right or Wrong?"
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2017, 04:00:55 PM »
Quote from: Warren
That's a piss-poor reason to take down the statue.


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Re: "Remove Physician Statue From NYC Park: Right or Wrong?"
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2017, 07:31:47 PM »
That's a piss-pour reason to take down the statue.


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