Histoire de la santé des femmes

The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, will host its eighth annual History of Women's Health Conference on Wednesday, April 17, 2013.

Women's Health: Individual stories, Global impact.

We are pleased to have Jacqueline H. Wolf, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Social Medicine, Ohio University, as our keynote speaker, presenting "Cutting Risk: Obstetricians' Evolving Views of Cesarean Sections, 1870-2010".  She is the author of Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Ohio State University Press, 2001).

PROGRAM

Keynote (7:30am-8:30am) Jacqueline H. Wolf  (PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Social Medicine, Ohio University) "Cutting Risk: Obstetricians' Evolving Views of Cesarean Sections, 1870-2010."

Break/continental breakfast 8:30-8:45am

Session One: 8:45-9:45am "Developing Practice"

Shannon Withycombe (ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Duke University)
Changing Bodies, Changing Behaviors: The Development of Prenatal Care in the U.S.

Shing-Ting Lin (Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University)
"The Imperial Touch: The Making of Western Childbirth Knowledge in Treaty-port China, 1890s-1930s."

Session Two: 10-11am "Hygiene and Commodity"

Frances Davey (Assistant Professor of History, Florida Gulf Coast University)
'In No Wise Unique': Working Women and the Creation of a Menstrual Subculture, 1880s-1910s."

Martha Gardner (Assistant Professor of History and Social Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
"Could You Be the Last Woman to Be Using Just One Deodorant?" The Appeal and Danger of a New "Essential" Product for American Women, 1966-1973

Sonic Woytonik (PhD Candidate, University of New Hampshire)
"The Business of the Body:  Healers, Medical Practice, and Profit in America, 1800-1870".

Session Three: 11:15am-12:15pm "Access"

Shoshanna Ehrlich (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston)
"From Birth Control to Self-Control:  The Shifting Congressional Response to Young Women's Sexuality in the United States, 1970-1982."

Suzanne Kahn (PhD Candidate, Columbia University)
"Health Care for Women or by Women: Divorced Women's Campaigns for Affordable Health Care in the 1970s and 1980s"

Lori Brown (Associate Professor, Syracuse University)
Spatial manipulations: The role of real space in abortion

Lunch: 12:15-1:15

Session Four: 1:15-2pm "The Power of One"

Hilary Aquino (Assistant Professor of History, Albright College)
"Foster Mother to One Million Children;" Leona Baumgartner's Crusade to Ensure 'Safer and Happier Motherhood'

Deborah Levine (Assistant Professor, Providence College)
Letters home from Educational Reform: Martha May Eliot's account of changes to American Medical Education, 1918-1925.

Wrap Up: 2-2:15pm

We will again offer a lunch buffet for $10.  Lunch will take place in the historic Pine Building.  Please send a check payable to the Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Collections to: Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Collections c/o Stacey Peeples, 3 Pine East Rm. 2, 800 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19107.

Stacey C Peeples
Curator-Lead Archivist Pennsylvania Hospital 800 Spruce St., 3 Pine East, Philadelphia, PA 19107
v 215-829-5434    e-mail stacey.peeples@uphs.upenn.edu
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/

This conference is FREE and open to the public.  To register, please RSVP to Stacey C Peeples, Curator-Lead Archivist, Pennsylvania Hospital at 215-829-5434 or stacey.peeples@uphs.upenn.edu by April 15, 2013.

When registering, please indicate if you would like to purchase the $10 lunch.  Vegetarian option will be available.