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List of contents
Acknowledgements
Janet Phillips, 1981
Introduction | Creepy Surgery Performed on New Moms
1 | The One in the White Coat, 1921-1978
2 | Dayton Doctor Develops Corrective Surgery, 1975-1978
Janet Phillips, 1981
3 | Surgical Development & Regulation
4 | The Dayton Medical Community Reacts, 1976-1980
5 | Investigating the Medical Profession in Ohio, 1980-1986
Janet Phillips, 1981-1984
6 | Turn Your Radio on for the Love Surgeon, 1978-1988
7 | The Women & the Surgery, 1970-1986
Janet Phillips, 1986-1987
8 | Tabloid Headlines, 1988-1989
9 | Surgery of Love on Trial
Conclusion | Stock Assumptions
Appendix | Questions to ask if having an elective surgery
References
About the author
SARAH B. RODRIGUEZ is a medical historian at Northwestern University in the Global Health Studies Program, the Department of Medical Education, and the Graduate Program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics. Her teaching and research focuses on the history of reproduction, clinical practice, and research ethics. Her publications include the book Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Practice.
Summary
Dr. James Burt believed women's bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, he developed what he called “love surgery”, a procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother. It would be easy to dismiss Burt as a monstrous aberration, yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that's not the whole story.
