The agenda for this event is listed
below and also available as a printable flyer
(PDF file).
History of Women’s Health Conference
April 23, 2008
Women’s Influence in Healthcare:
Women as Medical Agents and Medical Advocates for Themselves,
their Families and Society
Welcome
7:30 AM, Zubrow Auditorium
Dr. Jack Ludmir
Chair, OB/GYN Department, Pennsylvania Hospital
Dr. Deborah Driscoll
Chair, OB/GYN Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Keynote Presentation
Dr. Afaf I. Meleis
Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, and
Director of the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for
Nursing and Midwifery Leadership.
Global Women at Risk: A Historical Perspective
Session One
9:10-10:30 AM, Zubrow Auditorium
Moderator: Susan E. Klepp,
Professor of History
Temple University
Rodney Mader
Associate Professor of English
West Chester University
The Medical Knowledge of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
Martha Yoder
Lecturer, Commonwealth Honors College
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Women Health Caregivers and Political Activism in
the American Revolution
Megan Privett
Alliance for Historic Hillsborough, Program Coordinator
Mother Nature’s Medicine: Herbs Used in Childbirth
in Early America
Susan Hanket Brandt, R.N., F.N.P.
PhD Student, Temple Universtiy Department of History
“Finer Feelings”: Race, Sensibility, and
Nursing in the
1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic
Break
10:30-10:45 AM
Session Two
10:45-11:25 AM, Zubrow Auditorium
Moderator: Dr. Wanda Ronner
Pennsylvania Hospital OB/GYN Department
Ann Mari May, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics and Women’s Studies
Affiliate
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sex, Biology, and Higher Education in 19th Century
America
Laura M. Calkins PhD
Director, Women's Studies Program
Texas Tech University
Women's Medical Education during the Early Coeducational
Era: Disjoined and Gendered Spaces in the University of Michigan's
Medical Department, 1870-1879.
Session Three
11:25 AM - 12:45 PM, Zubrow Auditorium
Moderator: Dr. Peter Gearhart
Pennsylvania Hospital OB/GYN Department
Rebecca Vanucci
Ph.D student, University of New Mexico
It's All About Control: How Women Physicians Treat
and Perceive the Body in Philadelphia 1960’s-1980’s
Lee H. Igel, PhD
Assistant Professor
New York University
"Women & 'The Physician Condition': Old Assumptions,
New Realities, and Future Needs."
Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of
Nursing
Associate Director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of
the History of Nursing.
Clash and Compromise: Advocacy for Women’s Reproductive
Services in a Catholic and Public Hospital Partnership
Aimee Liu, MFA
Lecturer, Goddard College
Advisor, Academy for Eating Disorders
Gaining on the Half-Lives of Eating Disorders
Luncheon
1:00 PM, Great Court, Pine Building
Speaker: Heather Prescott, PhD.
Professor of History
Central Connecticut State University
The Contraceptive Revolution on Campus in the 1960s
and 1970s
Concluding Remarks, 2:15 PM
To register for this FREE conference, please contact Stacey
Peeples, Curator-Lead Archivist at
215-829-5434 or peepless@pahosp.com
Complimentary lunch provided to all registered attendees.
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