Nathan Bozeman (March 25, 1825 — February 16, 1905), was a physician and early gynecologist, first in Montgomery, Alabama, and then in New York City. He studied medicine at the University of Louisville, graduating in 1848.[1]: 3
He was collaborator of and then critic of controversial physician J. Marion Sims, whose practice and home in Montgomery he purchased in 1853, when Dr. Sims had to leave Alabama because of his health.[1]: 3–4 Bozeman succeeded Sims as surgeon of the New York Woman's Hospital.
Bozeman conducted experimental gynecological surgeries on enslaved women in Alabama.[2] These surgeries contributed to enslaved women's addiction to morphine, as he used this powerful drug when operating on enslaved women without consent.[3]
During the Civil War, he was for four years a surgeon in the Confederate Army.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b Bozeman, Nathan (1884). "History of the Clamp Suture of the-late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the.Profession". Gynecological Transactions. 9.
- ^ Taylor, Jamila K. "Structural Racism and Maternal Health Among Black Women".
- ^ Taylor, Jamila K. "Structural Racism and Maternal Health Among Black Women".