James Marion Sims was an American medical doctor in the field of surgery. His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. He developed this technique via non-consensual and unanesthetized surgeries on enslaved black women Anarcha Westcott, Lucy and Betsey and impoverished Irish women.
- Occupation
- surgeon, gynecologist, physician
- Position held
- President of the American Medical Association
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 25, 1813
- Died
