History of Women’s Health Conference
April 23, 2008 Program
“Women’s Influence in Healthcare:
Women as medical agents and medical advocates for themselves, their families and society”.
Welcome: 7:30 a.m. 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
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
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
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: 1pm 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 2:15pm
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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