Stunning work & horrifying content/reality. Apparently change is coming. The Atlantic ran a piece: Women Are Reinventing the Long-Despised Speculum
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/women-redesigning...
Weighted speculum are still used today in gynecological surgery.
How can the author not mention Cronenberg's terrific horror film "Dead Ringers"?
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It would have been helpful to describe what each instrument was intended to do. Not every man—or woman—necessarily knows what any of these things are.
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This is fascinating. I'd love to see more!
This project is compelling, and the photos are lovely. I am interested in knowing why Lindsey called her project Parturition, since many of the devices are specifically gynecologic; and also would like to ask the author to consider expanding the narrative regarding obstetrics and gynecology from "shifted to hospitals, where male doctors predominated" to be more inclusive of the reality today, which is that women are now the majority of obgyns, and that we presently work often and closely with nurses and midwives, in contrast to old times. Best wishes, an artist-gynecologist
Interesting article although, as an operating room nurse for the last 33 years, I recognize the "destructive forceps" as a Farabeuf Bone Holding clamp, commonly used for acetabular fractures.
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The "unidentified gynecological instrument" is a cervical dilator - used in late pregnancy termination.
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the undentfied device is a CERVCAL DILATOR. Used to open the cervix prior to a D&C. I am a retired OBGYN.
Really frightening looking at these instruments.
Makes you cringe in pain!
So huge and sharp. I can't help thinking about the rapport between these instruments and centuries of misogyny.
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