University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Ort: Glasgow
Zeit: 28.-29.04.2016
Proposals by 12.02.2016; CfP als PFD

Since the 1980s, there has been a significant body of research exploring the history of health and medicine from gendered perspectives. Valuable studies have highlighted the importance of addressing the history of medicine through the lens of gender. In particular, there has been valuable scholarship on the history of maternal and reproductive health, the history of gender and psychiatry and of women in the medical and nursing professions. More recently, scholars have been assessing the place of masculinity and concepts of ‘manliness’ in the history of health and medicine. This two-day workshop aims to bring together scholars working on any aspect relating to the intersection of masculinity, health and medicine in the modern period in any geographical context, with the aim of generating discussion and future collaborations. Read more and Source … (Web)