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The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, will host its third annual History of Women’s Health Conference on Wednesday, April 23, 2008. We invite interested persons to send a two page proposal or abstract of your topic by Friday, November 9, 2007 for consideration. The History of Women’s Health Conference focuses on women’s health issues from the late 18th century to the present. This conference encourages interdisciplinary work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, obstetric and gynecology issues (fertility, infertility, birth control methods, menopause), adolescence (health, cultural influences, body image), mental health topics, geriatric concerns, overall women’s health, access to health care, minority health and more. This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Afaf I. Meleis. She is the 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.
Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first hospital, is a 515-bed acute care facility that provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic medical services and functions as a major teaching and clinical research institution. For more information please visit our web site at http://pennhealth.com/pahosp/
The Archives of the Pennsylvania Hospital have been gathered for 255 years – an almost unbroken series since 1751. The Archives consists of administration and financial records, patient files, photographs and other visual materials, personal papers of hospital practitioners, and artifacts, as well as the records of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital and affiliates absorbed by Pennsylvania Hospital such as the Philadelphia Dispensary, the Preston Retreat, the Southern Dispensary, the Philadelphia Lying-In Charity, the Maternity Hospital, the Nurse Charity, and the Humane Society. It is a unique resource for scholars interested in the history of hospital development, mental health care, medicine, architecture and genealogy. For more on our collections or the history of Pennsylvania Hospital, please visit http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/
The keynote address will take place in our newly renovated Zubrow Auditorium, and the panel sessions will be held in the historic Pine Building.
Please submit your proposals/abstracts to:
Stacey C Peeples
Curator-Lead Archivist, Pennsylvania Hospital
3 Pine East, 800 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
peepless@pahosp.com
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