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Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London

W omen’s Health, Society and Culture Seminar Series 2004

Meetings held on Mondays, 12.30 - 14.00

Nearest tube and rail: Waterloo - www.kcl.ac.uk/maps/waterloo.html

 

ADMISSION FREE – OPEN LECTURES, ALL WELCOME

 

21/04

Franklin-Wilkins Building

Room 1.16

 

Women’s work: the gendering of IVF

Karen Throsby

Department of Sociology, London School Economics

 

19/05

Waterloo Bridge Wing/Franklin-Wilkins Building Room 2.21

 

Imagining sex and reproduction in 17th Century England

Laura Gowing

Department of History, King’s College London

 

23/6

Waterloo Bridge Wing/Franklin-Wilkins Building Room 2.21

 

Evaluation of community based interventions in maternal and child health

Ron Gray

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit , Oxford

 

22/9

Room tbc

 

Variation in uptake of antenatal Down’s Syndrome screening: a reflection of women’s attitudes or a failure to facilitate informed choice?

Elizabeth Dormandy,

Psychology Unit, King’s College London

 

20/10

Room tbc

 

Framing the foetus in medical work: representations, rituals and practices

Clare Williams,

Women and Family Health Research Group, King’s College London

 

17/11

Room tbc

 

Midwives, staying, leaving or returning to the NHS

Mavis Kirkham

Women’s Informed Childbearing and Health Research Group, Sheffield University

 

15/12

Room tbc

 

Elizabethan and Jacobean Pregnancy Portraits

Karen Hearn

Tate Britain

 

For further information:

Please contact Caroline Kirby-Smith on 020 7848 3023 or [log in to unmask]

 

 

Dr  Jane Sandall
Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health
Women & Family Health Research Group,
King's College, Waterloo Bridge Wing,
Franklin-Wilkins Building,
150 Stamford Street,
London, SE1 9NN
Tel: 020 7848 3605
Fax: 020 7848 3764
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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html