Fertility, Maternity, Reproduction: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine
The Summer Term Talk Series 2025, organised by Dr. Jil Muller, Deputy of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, and Dr. Fabrizio Bigotti, Director of the Center for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, is dedicated to Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine.
The first talk will take place on Wednesday, 19 March, at 4 pm (CTE).
Everyone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
The whole program:
Irene Cala – Aspasia and the Others: Women and Medicine in Late Antiquity
19 March, 4-6pm
Anna Gili – Women’s Health in Early Islamic Medical Works: Contextualising al-Maǧūsī’s“Kitāb al-malakī”
2 April, 4-6 pm
Shannon McHugh – Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Italian Lyric Poetry
16 April, 4-6 pm
Karine Durin – Fluids as Dynamic and Organic Forces. Medical Knowledge in Oliva Sabucode Nantes
30 April, 4-6 pm
Viktorya Vasilyan – A History of Breastfeeding, it’s iconography and Medical Importance
14 May, 4-6 pm
Martina Guzzetti – Pregnant Women’s Wellbeing in Jane Sharp’s “The Midwives’ Book”(1671)
29 May, 4-6pm
For further information, please check the webpages: https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/new-voices-talk-series/ or https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/conferences-webinars/womens-ideas-2025/