![]() ![]() The 19th-century physician has been lionized with a half-dozen statues around the country.īut because Sims’ research was conducted on enslaved Black women without anesthesia, medical ethicists, historians and others say his use of enslaved Black bodies as medical test subjects falls into a long, ethically bereft history that includes the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Henrietta Lacks. Critics say Sims cared more about the experiments than in providing therapeutic treatment, and that he caused untold suffering by operating under the racist notion that Black people did not feel pain. ![]() In 1876, he was named president of the American Medical Association, and in 1880, he became president of the American Gynecological Society, an organization he helped found. Few medical doctors have been as lauded-and loathed-as James Marion Sims.Ĭredited as the “father of modern gynecology,” Sims developed pioneering tools and surgical techniques related to women’s reproductive health. ![]()
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