Event Description
ou know the names of some of the greatest women in healthcare history, including Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton, who famously modernized healthcare while treating soldiers in the Crimean and Civil Wars. But what do you know about the history of women’s healthcare itself, which also owes its modern origins to the 1800s?
This live, interactive class examines a lesser-known story: the evolution of women’s healthcare from the 1800s through today. Look inside a doctor’s visit from the 1840s; examine healthcare tools of the mid-19th century; and meet some of the doctors, inventors, writers, and activists that shaped the early medical industry and explore their impact on women’s health activism a century later. Together we’ll meet the unheralded heroes who put women’s healthcare on the map.
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage.
Hosted by the Science History Institute.
