[Rotary] June 6th

[Sean Leland]

Hello all,

Next week's program is one that nobody will want to miss. Our speaker will be Tiarra Rogers. Tiarra is a recent graduate of Vassar College and the 2019 Clyde and Sally Griffen Prize for Excellence in American History winner. This prize and many other accolades were awarded to Tiarra for her thesis titled--Creating Patienthood: Dissecting Enslaved women's roles in the Emergence of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Tiarra's  program on June 6th will go into the following:

During the nineteenth century, gynecological and obstetric medicine underwent rapid transformations from a largely unorganized system of semi-professionals and home practitioners to a systematic profession dominated by white men. In these years, the word "obstetrics" was coined, and many medical procedures still used today were formalized in medical journals and clinical environments. Written records from this time often valorize the doctors pioneering these fields while ignoring the basis of their knowledge, primarily enslaved women's bodies and embodied knowledge. Tiarra's thesis explores the roles that enslaved women in the antebellum South played in the creation of obstetrics and gynecology from 1840-1860. By bringing enslaved patients' and midwives' voices to bear on this larger story Tiarra's thesis works to see beyond individual atrocities, and instead analyzes the larger structures that the medical community built based on these women's knowledge and patienthood.

I look forward to seeing you all.

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