Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

135. Gender, Medicine, and the State

Hilton, Williford Room C

Joint session with the Coordinating Council for Women in History

Chair: Kenneth Kiple, Bowling Green State University

Papers: The King's Midwives: The 1764 Midwifery Expedition to Saint Domingue and Why it Failed
Karol K. Weaver, Purdue University

Building a Biocracy: Gender, Colonialism, and Mental Hygiene in French Algeria
Richard C. Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Gender of Superstition: Medicine, Magic, and the Chinese Nationalist State
Rebecca Nedostup, Purdue University

Comment: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania

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