A Day for the History of Medicine!
Here's another picture of Dr. Mary Walker, the only female surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War... still insisting on wearing mens clothes in her elder years. (I think that this photo was taken in 1917, two years before her death.) She never tried to pass as a man, but insisted on dress reform.
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I am full of glee! Yesterday, I found out that my paper abstract was accepted, and so I will be presenting at "A Day for the History of Medicine at the University of Alberta" - a history of medicine conference. :)
I will be presenting a paper called "Innovation out of Necessity: Changes in Medical Practices Made During the American Civil War", which I wrote last semester for a History of American Medicine class. This is an undergraduate conference, but I think that it will prove interesting! There are history students, medical students, and even a few English students... I'm very excited!
(I also noticed that my former boss at Fort Edmonton, the Midway supervisor, is also presenting a paper. That will be interesting!)
Some of the other papers in the programme that caught my eye are:
-"A Cloak of Secrecy: Transplant Tourism in China"
-"Shocked into Submission: the use of electroshock therapy throughout the 1940s and 1950s in the United States"
-"Pregnant With Promise: Gunther von Gagens' Body Worlds, COnstructions of Lifelikeness, and the Display of the Anatomical Parturient Body."
-" 'Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor not a Machiavel!' : Leonard "Bones" McCoy and the Shakespearean Physician" (Which also promises to analyze other persnickety TV doctors like House!)
So if any of this peaks your interest, and you're in the neighbourhood of Edmonton on Saturday, March 27th, please feel free to show up at the Heritage Medical Research Centre, Room 2-207! (My presentation is at about 11:30am, I think.)