2012 History of Women's Health Conference
From Self-Help to Genetic Screening: Culture and Science in Women's Health
The conference is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to Stacey Peeples at 215-829-5434 or peepless@pahosp.com by April 15, 2012.
Keynote (7:30am-8:30am)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, PhD.
Janice and Julian Bers Professor, History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvannia
"Climbing Up the Slippery Slope; Genetic Screening for ß-thalassemia on the Island of Cyprus"
Author of "Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening" (Harvard University Press, 2008)
Session 1—19th c. Women’s Health (9am-10:15am)
Martha Yoder, PhD., (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Female Sphere, Male Dominion: Women's Health Care on the Slave Plantation
Jonathan Mercantini, PhD., (Kean University)
"I have passed through fearful scenes:" Christine Kean Griffin and the Emergence of the United States Sanitary Commission
Teresa Blue Holden, PhD., (Greenville College)
Medical Self-Help: Late Nineteenth Century African American Women and Family Medicine
Session 2--Cultural Understanding (10:15am-11:30am)
Alyssa McClanahan, MA Candidate, (University of Cincinnati)
Catching Babies in the New World: A Case Study of Progressive Era Childbirth Practices among Immigrant Women in Cincinnati
Kelly Morrow, PhD Candidate, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Sexuality and Reproductive Justice on Campus: Sex Counseling and Feminism at Yale University 1969-1973
Lunch (11:30am-12:45pm)
$10 lunch buffet (Sandwiches including vegetarian, salad, fruit, dessert and beverage) offered in Great Court
Make checks payable to Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Collections and mail to:
Stacey Peeples
3 Pine East
800 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19017
Session 3—Advancements (12:45pm-2pm)
Sandra Trudgen Dawson, PhD, (Northern Illinois University)
Marketing Professional Maternal-Child Health Services to Working Women in Britain, 1880-1939.
Deanna Day, PhD Candidate, (University of Pennsylvania)
The Patient Labor of Reproductive Care: The Contested History of Fertility Charting and Female Physiology
Jessica Martucci, PhD., (Mississippi State University)
"With the Help of My Breast Pump:" The Technology of Infant Feeding in the 20th and 21st centuries
Closing Remarks (2pm-2:30pm)
Nursing contact hours (5.0) will be granted to nurses attending this program in its entirety and submitting an evaluation for the program. Pennsylvania Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the PA State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on accreditation. There is no conflict of interest on the part of any presenter. There is no commercial support for this educational offering.
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