'A Species of Knowledge': Women and Medicine 1750-1850
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
This interdisciplinary symposium will examine the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, publication, apprenticeship, and training while considering how women engaged in medical practice in a variety of contexts.
This event is free with advance booking required. Parents with children and participants with disabilities are encouraged to attend. A breakout room will be available and refreshments provided. If you have specific dietary or access requirements, please inform the conference organiser at alexis.wolf@bbk.ac.uk
Supported by the Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund and the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Please visit http://aspeciesofknowledge.wordpress.com for further information.
Contact name:
Alexis Wolf
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