NPR News: 'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC

'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC
J. Marion Sims perfected a new surgical procedure by repeatedly operating, without anesthesia, on enslaved women in the 1840s. New York City is moving his Central Park statue to a cemetery.

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