Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library
invites you to attend the first lecture in the Fall 2023
Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

On Mothers Who Kill and The Racialization of Postpartum Mental Illness with Udodiri R. Okwandu, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History of Science, Presidential Scholar at Harvard University, Racial Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Science Education (RDEISE), and Research Fellow at LabXchange

Udodiri R. Okwandu is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science Department and Presidential Scholar at Harvard University. Broadly, her research explores the intersection of race, gender, and medicine and cultural understandings of health and disease. Her dissertation traces how scientific and medical understandings of maternal mental illnesses

1:00 P.M.—2:30 P.M. Eastern U.S. time. This is a online event. No RSVP required. Please use the following Zoom link:

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95930271287?pwd=ME03Ly9qN3ZscVBrV29wNkJMaG50UT09
Passcode: 944147; Webinar ID 959 3027 1287

For more information, contact David G. Satin, MD, Colloquium Director

Co-sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital
and the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Longwood Campus