{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The Mothers of Modern Gynaecology","description":"In this weeks podcast Jinty and Lou were moved by the story of three black slave women, \n the Mothers of Modern Gynaecology, Anarcha, Betsy and Lucy.\nThey were three enslaved women with Vesticovaginal Fistulas that were ‘gifted’ to Dr James Marion Simms, the man credited with inventing the field of Gynaecology.\nWe look into what their lives may have been like.\n \nThe great sacrifice of the Mother’s of modern gynaecology, Anarcha, Lucy and Betsy, is a story everyone should know,\nJinty and Lou find out why slave girls and women were used and the brutal procedures they endured without anesthetic. \nWomen have always played a pivotal part in medicine and childbirth from the wise women through to the wonderful midwifes we have today and we find out how these women pioneered the midwifery path.\n\n Book Collective is on the penultimate read of Three Women by Lisa Taddeo and we continue with the story of the 3 women, Maggie’s court case and the outcome, Sloane’s story and Lina’s unraveling, we talk about how the characters stories are coming to a head\n\nThe Foodie Collective this month is Brain Food and Jinty has prepared an alternative salad and we learn about the Neuro 9 that keeps our brains happy. There are Tips for brain health from the 30-day Alzheimer’s solution book by Dean and Ayesha Sherzai.\n\nJinty and Lou were invited to join in a Glow fest zoom 90’s dancercise with the lovely Elena, there was a lot of laughter and we have realized we will not be asked to go on Strictly but find out how we really got on plus all the details of Elena’s Sunday Morning class.\n \nWe have also entered a competition to win recording equipment and would love you to vote for us by clicking on this link\n\nhttps://www.myrodecast.com/\n\n--- \n\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message","author_name":"Jinty Sheerin and Lou Hockings-Thompson"}