Pennsylvania Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania , and the International Council on Women's Health Issues
"The Female as 'Invalid': Medical Diagnosis and Women"
Times: 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Place: Pennsylvania Hospital, Zubrow Auditorium, 800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia
RSVP by April 1 to Stacey Peeples, 215-829-5434 or peepless@pahosp.com
This conference is free and open to the public
The Pennsylvania Hospital will host the fifth annual History of Women's Health Conference focusing on women's health issues from the late 18th century to the present.
The keynote speaker will be Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Director of the Office of the Americas within the Office of the Secretary, Office of Global Health Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her presentation will be "Cities and Women's Health: A Global Perspective on Equality Across Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Age and Disability Status."
The closing speaker will be Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., a medical writer and adjunct professor of journalism at The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. She will speak about her book, Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank, specifically highlighting the rise of the maternity hospitals in urban areas using the New York Lying-In as an example. Her talk will explore how these homes for the "deserving poor" transformed into major medical centers offering state-of-the-art care.