Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, the Department of Jewish Studies, the Program in Global Medieval Studies, and the History Department
NAAMA COHEN HANEGBI
Department of History, Tel Aviv University
An enigmatic line in a Hebrew Castilian medical casebook notes that the doctor treated a pregnant woman suffering sorrow and loss. Taking this text as a point of departure, Prof. Cohen Hanegbi will analyze Hebrew, Latin, and vernacular sources to elucidate the medical, religious, and social contexts of mental health care for parturients in the late medieval Mediterranean.
In so doing, she will elucidate Jewish and Christian understandings of women's mental health before, during, and after childbirth.
April 8, 2025, 10:30am
Miller Hall (14 College Ave.), room 105
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