Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

Friday 15 May 2009

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford

A Symposium in celebration of the work of Margaret Pelling

Occupational Diversity: Medicine, Sickness and Gender in Historical Perspective

Speakers:

Lindsey Fitzharris: Reassessing John Webster (1611-1682) in the Twenty-First century

Mark Harrison: Contagion, Medicine and the State, c.1720-1848

Lauren Kassell: How to Dispossess your Daughters of the Devil

Elaine Leong: Reading the Margins: Readers and Vernacular Medical Books in Early Modern England

Henry Meier: Smallpox, Sick-nursing and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-century London

Sara Pennell: The Apothecary’s Wife; or, Recovering Elizabeth Clag(g)et(t)

Patrick Wallis: Between Household and Market: Household Accounts as Sources for Medical Consumption

John Welshman: Evacuation, Memory, and the Second World War

Academic Organisers:

Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge
Sara Pennell, University of Roehampton
Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics

Contacts:

Lauren Kassell (ltk21@hermes.cam.ac.uk) for academic enquiries

Belinda Michaelides (belinda.michaelides@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk) for administrative enquiries

Poster

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