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SUMMARY:Author Series: The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London
DESCRIPTION:About the book:\n\nIn the seventeenth and eighteenth 
 centuries\, venereal disease\, or the 'pox\,' was a dreaded diagnosis 
 throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks\, along with their inexorable link to 
 sex\, were so stigmatizing that it was commonly called 'the secret 
 disease.' How do we capture everyday experiences of a disease that so few 
 people admitted having? Olivia Weisser's remarkable history invites readers 
 into the teeming\, vibrant pox-riddled streets of early modern London. She 
 uncovers the lives of the poxed elite as well as of the maidservants and 
 prostitutes who left few words behind\, showing how marks of the disease 
 offered a language for expressing acts that were otherwise unutterable. 
 This new history of sex\, stigma\, and daily urban life takes readers down 
 alleys where healers peddled their tinctures\, enters kitchens and gardens 
 where ordinary sufferers made cures\, and listens in on intimate exchanges 
 between patients and healers in homes and in taverns.\n\nAbout the 
 author:\n\nOlivia Weisser is Associate Professor of History at the 
 University of Massachusetts Boston. She received a B.A. in History from 
 Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins 
 School of Medicine. Her first book\, Ill Composed (Yale University Press\, 
 2015) is about gendered perceptions of illness in the 1600s and 1700s. The 
 book was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book 
 Award and short-listed for a British Medical Association Book Award. Her 
 work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, 
 American Historical Association\, and Huntington Library\, among 
 others.\n\n---\n\nWe are committed to making this event accessible to all 
 participants. The space is wheelchair accessible\, microphones will be used 
 for speakers\, and assistive listening devices are available for use. 
 Please reach out to countwayoutreach@hms.harvard.edu if you have any 
 accessibility needs or questions.
LOCATION:Countway Floor 1: Room 102\, Harvard Longwood Campus
ORGANIZER;CN="Meredith Solomon":MAILTO:meredith_solomon@hms.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:Events
CONTACT;CN="Meredith Solomon":MAILTO:meredith_solomon@hms.harvard.edu
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