BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:History of Medicine: “Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England” PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_635081_0 SUMMARY:History of Medicine: “Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England” DESCRIPTION:

Reception begins at 5:30pm.

Olivia Weisser, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston

Olivia Weisser earned a PhD in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University and specializes in the history of the body, gender, and sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her talk is based on her first book, Ill Composed (Yale Press, 2015), which explores health and healing in early modern England from the patient’s point of view.

Minot Room, Fifth Floor,
Countway Library of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School,
10 Shattuck Street, Boston MA

Free and open to the public.
Registration required. To register, click here or email us at ContactChom@hms.harvard.edu.

LOCATION:Minot Room, Fifth Floor, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20160308T230000Z DTEND:20160308T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR