Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940, Elizabeth O’Brien, 2023, University of North Carolina Press
Ghosts haunt the shadows of maternity wards in hospitals where physicians tried to curtail non-white bloodlines by state fiat or medical racism.
Eugenic sterilisation is one of the dark secrets of modernity, admitted to only by the few who dare, and sidelined in official histories of nations reluctant to confront the sins of the past—and, in some cases, the present.
It is staggering to learn that it was not until 2014 . . .
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Categories: Mexico, North America