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Date: April 5, 2012
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Light refreshments at 5:30; lecture at 6:00; special reception for Friends of the Rare Book Room immediately following the lecture
Speaker(s):
Mary Fissell, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Mary Fissell explores the history of one of the most important popular medical books in English. First published in 1684, Aristotle's Masterpiece was still for sale in the 1930s, largely unaltered. Neither by Aristotle nor a masterpiece, the book offered advice to women about pregnancy and childbirth, spiced up with a racy poem and sensational images of monster babies. The NYAM collection includes a number of editions of this work, which will be on display in the Malloch Rare Book Room during the special post-lecture reception for Friends of the Rare Book Room.
About the Speaker(s)
Mary E. Fissell is Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, where she also co-edits the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. She received her BA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarly work focuses on how ordinary people in the past understood health, healing, and the natural world. She is the author of 2 books and many articles, and has won a range of grants and fellowships, including NIH, the Davis Center at Princeton, and ACLS. She is currently writing a social and cultural history of Aristotle's Masterpiece, an extraordinarily long-lived popular medical book about sex and reproduction.
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