A Species of Knowledge: Women and Knowledge, 1750-1850
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Keynote speaker: Professor Hilary Marland (Warwick). This interdisciplinary symposium will examine the myriad ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850 including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, domestic cookery books, publication, and apprenticeship. Speakers include:
Dr Erin Spinney (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)
‘Seniority, Experience, and On-the-job Training at British Naval Hospitals 1775-1815’
Janette Bright (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
‘Women Advisers to the Foundling Hospital Governors’
Dr Alexis Wolf (Birkbeck, University of London)
‘Self-Education and Mentoring in the Domestic Medical Texts of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell’
Contact name:
David Mcallister