Gendering Flesh and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Nouvelle-Orl?ans (3-6 janvier 2013)

We are looking for a chair and commentator for a panel we have put together for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans, LA on Jan. 3-6, 2013. This panel is a co-sponsored session with SSEMW.
Panel Title: Gendering Flesh and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Presenters:
– ‘The Gendered Knowledge of Poison in Seventeenth-Century France’
Stephanie O’Hara, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
– ‘Medical Remedies and Gendered Relationships in the Midwifery Practice of the Royal Midwife, Louise Bourgeois (1563-1636)’
Alison Klairmont Lingo, University of California, Berkeley
– ‘Generating Gendered Flesh: Exchanging, Displaying, and Consuming Human
Body Parts during the Eighteenth Century’
Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta
Please contact Amy Froide at froide@umbc.edu if you are interested in chairing and/or commenting on this session. We will require a short c.v. to submit to the AHA.