Fwd: [Histmed] gender and medicine workshop: Galway, Ireland, 26th Feb 2010

[Chris]

for wider info - pass on as you wish - please reply to

  l.kelly15 at nuigalway.ie

and not to the list
thanks
Chris

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Please see the workshop announcement below.  Apologies for any cross-posting.
>
>Siobhan Watts
>
>Administrator
>Centre for the History of Medicine
>University of Warwick
>CV4 7AL
>
>Tel: 02476 572601
>
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>Workshop: Gender and the medical profession in Britain and Ireland,
>c.1800-1950
>The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies,
>National University of Ireland, Galway
>Friday, February 26th, 2010
>
>Supported by the Wellcome Trust
>
>The main objective of this meeting is to explore the importance of
>gender as a mode of investigation within the history of medicine. This
>workshop will bring together historians of medicine from Ireland and the
>United Kingdom who are working on themes relating to gender and the
>medical profession in order to discuss most recent research that is
>being conducted within the field. Through the discussion of gendered
>themes relating to the history of medicine, participants will provide
>useful feedback to each others' work in addition to focusing on the
>relevance of gender to modern research in the history of medicine.
>
>The themes of papers that will be given include:
>o       Gender issues within the history of medical education and
>medical students.
>o       Masculinity and femininity and the medical profession.
>o       Gender issues with regard to the treatment of patients.
>o       Masculine and feminine representations of medical missionaries.
>o       The future of gendered themes within the history of medicine: is
>gender a valuable mode of investigation?
>
>
>Registration for this workshop is essential. If you wish to attend or
>require further details, please email Laura Kelly at
>l.kelly15 at nuigalway.ie.
>****************************************
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Laura
>
>
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>Laura Kelly
>IRCHSS Scholar
>Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway
>l.kelly15 at nuigalway.ie
>
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