CANCELED: The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents

Mandy Fowler
Doctoral student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill

The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care

Lecture

Early Modern Economies of Care, explores practices of giving and receiving care as they existed in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. In this presentation, Mandy will share insights from their research as the 2022-2023 McLendon-Thomas Award Fellow with the Wilson Library Rare Books Collection. As a Fellow, Mandy used a variety of materials, including medical guides for physicians and household caregivers, familial letters and legal documents, and other printed or manuscript texts to better understand the complexities of caregiving from the perspectives of both the givers and receivers of care. Mandy’s research pays particular attention to the ways in which materiality and social dynamics influenced early modern approaches to care.

Speaker

Mandy is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC, where they study early modern literature with an emphasis in the history of medicine, materiality, and domestic culture. They received the 2022-2023 McLendon-Thomas Award which supports scholarly research on the history of medicine that makes significant use of the rich and deep resources available in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s special collections, home to the Health Sciences History Collection which is part of the Rare Book Collection.