Mandy Fowler<\/span><\/span> The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care<\/b><\/p>\n Early Modern<\/i>\u00a0Economies of Care<\/i>, explores practices of giving and receiving care as they existed in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. In this presentation,\u00a0Mandy<\/span> will share insights from their research as the 2022-2023 McLendon-Thomas Award<\/a> Fellow with the Wilson Library Rare Books Collection. As a Fellow, Mandy<\/span>\u00a0used a variety of materials, including medical guides\u00a0fo<\/span>r 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.\u00a0Mandy<\/span>\u2019s research pays particular attention to the ways in which materiality and social dynamics influenced early modern approaches to care.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Mandy<\/span> 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<\/a> which supports\u202fscholarly research on the history of medicine\u00a0that makes\u202fsignificant use of the rich and deep resources available in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2019s special collections, home to the Health Sciences History Collection which is part of the Rare Book Collection.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u00a0Economies of Care, explores practices of giving and receiving care as they existed in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. In this presentation,\u00a0Mandy will share insights … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77162,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-2987","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bhomc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDoctoral student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill<\/em>
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