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SUMMARY:Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physic
 ians and their female patients - Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg
 )
DTSTART:20160114T163000Z
DTEND:20160114T180000Z
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CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
DESCRIPTION:In the sixteenth century\, 'diseases of women' – thought to 
 originate from their womb – and matters of generation\, pregnancy and ch
 ildbirth attracted growing attention in learned medical writing. So far we
  know very little\, however\, about how commonly women consulted physician
 s – rather than midwives and wise women – in such matters and what the
 y could expect. Drawing on the notebooks and practice journals of sixteent
 h-century physicians\, this lecture will examine the place of gynecologica
 l and obstetrical problems in ordinary medical practice. It will trace the
  ways in which physicians acquired the knowledge and the skills they neede
 d to diagnose and treat these patients – including foetal anatomy\, manu
 al examination and the use of the speculum. And it will show that learned 
 physicians were even prepared to take the empirical knowledge of non-acade
 mic healers and ordinary womenfolk seriously in this domain to which they 
 traditionally had only limited access.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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