The Overflowing of Them: Female Medicine at Historic Homewood

Description

For the women of Homewood in the early 19th century, their health was most often a private matter that they addressed without extensive aid from medical doctors. Both enslaved and free women coped with menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth in the face of often understudied medical science, though their experiences frequently differed from there.

Please join a lunchtime virtual lecture in which Johns Hopkins University undergraduate senior and Homewood curatorial intern, Addy Perlman, shares her research into the medical experiences of the individual women who lived at Homewood and how that set the stage for a greater story of female medicine in the long 19th century.

This event is hosted by Homewood Museum.