Afaf I. Meleis, Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Place: 2U Conference Room, Claire Fagin Hall, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
The historical roots of women’s health care research and agenda were informed by values and assumptions that stereotyped women and their places and position in society. Dr. Afaf will discuss some of the theoretical assumptions and will challenge the group to think about the role that nursing scholarship may have played in substituting views of women as subjects and objects, to view women as agents of their own bodies and care.
Afaf I. Meleis, Ph.D., Dr.PS(Hon.), FAAN, is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, and Director of the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership.