A ‘Non-Standard Practice of Gynecology’

James Burt began performing what he described as a variation of an episiotomy repair in the mid-1960s to, in his view, improve upon the sexual anatomy of women. He called this ‘love surgery’. This talk will focus on Burt’s performing love surgery on women who did not elect to have it, and will examine the changing ideas of consent in the 1970s and the role of peer review.

Sponsors: Department of Medical History & Bioethics, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.