Newswise — Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first, has a long and distinguished history of caring for women. Obstetrics was the hospital's first recognized physician specialty upon the establishment of its Lying-In department in 1803. The hospital remains devoted to the care and treatment of women today, with particular expertise in areas such as high-risk maternal and fetal services and neonatology. Pennsylvania Hospital is the site of over 5,000 births per year, the most in Philadelphia.
Given its continued commitment, the hospital is the ideal host for the History of Women's Health Conference. This fourth annual event draws women's studies and women's health scholars from across the eastern United States to present their research on: Traveling Knowledge: How Women Gathered, Dispensed, and Gendered Medical Knowledge. The conference is sponsored by the Professional Staff of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Collections, and the OB/GYN Department of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 22 7:30 am to 3 pm
WHERE: Pennsylvania Hospital, Zubrow Auditorium 800 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA WHO & WHAT:
Keynote address, 7:45 am: "¢Wanda Ronner, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Pennsylvania Hospital. She also serves as the Medical Student Director for the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Margaret Marsh, PhD, Distinguished Professor of History and Interim Chancellor at Rutgers University's Camden campus. Drs. Marsh and Ronner will speak about their newest book, The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution (Johns Hopkins University Press).
PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
Session One, 8:45 " 10:15 am: "¢Stephanie Patterson Gilbert, MA, American Studies Instructor, Dickinson College: Domestic Revolutions: Elizabeth Sandwich Drinker and Her Attitudes toward Motherhood in Late 18th Century Philadelphia. "¢Wendy Lucas Castro, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas: Eight Weeks Gone When it Happn'd: Miscarriage in Late 18th Century and Early 19th Century America.
Session Two, 10:30 " 11:45 am: "¢Susan Brandt, RN, FNP, Doctoral Candidate, Temple University: Webs of Kinship, Community, Commerce and Healing: Elizabeth Cates Paschall's Receipt Book. "¢Martha Yoder, Assistant Professor, Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Gender Dimensions of the Illness Narrative in 18th Century America. "¢Janet Dean, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Bryant University: Mary Lyndon's Lessons: Prescriptions for Women's Health in a 19th Century novel.
Session Three, Noon " 1:45 pm: "¢Thomas Lawrence Long, PhD, Professor-in-Residence, University of Connecticut School of Nursing: Gendered Spaces, Gendered Pages: Civil War Women's Nurse Narratives. "¢Rachel Elder, Graduate Student, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania: Between Women and Their Doctors: "Female Pills" in Victorian and Edwardian England. "¢Libby Mills, MS, RD, LDN, Professor, LaSalle University: Agrarian and Culinarian Women: Nourishment and Need. "¢Christina Hanganu-Bresch, PhD, Visiting Professor, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia: Gardasil, Cervical Cancer and Moral Puritanism.
Luncheon, 1:45- 2:45 pm Research and Writing about Health: Connecting Students with 19th Century Texts on Women's Health"¢Marilyn McKinley Parrish, DEd, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, Millersville University "¢Carrie Lee Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, department of Sociology/Anthropology, Millersville University
Nursing contact hours (5.50) will be granted to nurses attending this program in its entirety and submitting an evaluation for the program. Pennsylvania Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the PA State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on accreditation. There is no conflict of interest on the part of any presenter. There is no commercial support for this educational offering.
About Pennsylvania HospitalPennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first -- was founded in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond. Today, the 515-bed acute care facility offers a full-range of diagnostic and therapeutic medical services and is a major teaching and clinical research institution. The hospital has over 25,000 admissions each year, including over 5,000 births. With a national reputation in areas such as orthopaedics, cardiac care, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, otorhinolaryngology (ENT) and urology as well as obstetrics, high-risk maternal and fetal services, neonatology, and behavioral health, the campus also includes specialty treatment centers such as the Joan Karnell Cancer Center, the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery, the PENN Neurological Institute and the radiosurgical Gamma Knife Center. Pennsylvania Hospital is part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and is located in the historic Society Hill district of Philadelphia.
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