Join us this week to discuss two fantastic papers:
Ranjana Saha's paper: "Mothercraft, “Clean” Midwifery and Child Healthcare: “Scientific” Motherhood Advice in British India and Beyond"
Ranjana Saha is currently a MSCA COFUND TIAS TIES Fellow (September 2023-August 2026) at the Department of European and World History, University of Turku, Finland.
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Whitney Wood's piece: “The Woman-As-Patient Perspective”: Embodied Knowledge and Gynecological Teaching in Canadian Medical Schools, 1970-1990
Whitney Wood is Canada Research Chair in the Historical Dimensions of Women’s Health in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University. Her research interests include histories of gender, health, and the body, and cultural and medical representations of obstetric and gynaecological pain. She is currently working on two main projects, Changing Childbirth in Postwar Canada, 1945-2000, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant, and a collaborative multiyear project, Pelvic Health and Public Health in Twentieth Century Canada, supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Please do not circulate WIPs outside of this network. As always, readings can be accessed via this session's downloadable ZIP file (below).