The American Association for the History of Nursing and the University of Virginia School of Nursing will co-sponsor the conference. September 21-23, 2001. 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. June 6-9 th 2002. Back to Contents.
Women remain the greatest consumers of therapies either as patients or as carers of patients.
In a mere hundred years, however, western biomedicine has transformed human health and reproduction, offering for the first time reliable fertility control, safer childbirth, healthier babies, less infection, childbirth without pain, hormonal therapies, the conquest of infertility. This conference joins leading scholars with health practitioners, activists, planners and concerned citizens. Royal Women s Hospital Foundation, the Centre for Health and Society and the Key Centre for Women s Health, University of Melbourne. National Science Foundation of the United States of America and hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne. Centre for the Study of Health and Society and the History Department of the University of Melbourne.