# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-marion-sims
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:49:18.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-marion-sims"
name: "J. Marion Sims"
slug: "j-marion-sims"
description: "James Marion Sims was an American physician 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.\nHe is also remembered for inventing the Sims speculum, the Sims sigmoid catheter, and Sims' position. Against significant opposition, he established, in New York, the first hospital in the United States specifically for women. He was forced out of the hospital he founded because he insisted on treating cancer patients; he played a small role in the creation of the nation's first cancer hospital, which opened after his death."
tagline: "American physician and gynecologist (1813-1883)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Marion_Sims.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1813-01-25"
deathDate: "1883-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           14.67223333333333
  currentAttention:     29.04564315352697
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 173
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump