Women’s Experiences in the 19th-Century Sickroom
Hosted by Distinguished Professor Emerita Alice Kuzniar, this workshop brought together historians of medicine and literary scholars to investigate how self-care and nursing of sick family and friends influenced ұԲ’s19th-century women writers, in particularAnnette vonٰDzٱ-üǴڴ.
This workshop took place on Wednesday, October 4, 2023.
Researchers
(Queen's University), (Bosch Institute for the History of Medicine), (Rutgers University), (FernUniversität in Hagen), and (Universität Mannheim).
The cross-disciplinary approach of this workshop highlights collaboration in the medical humanities, disability studies, feminist studies, life writing,and 19th-century cultural studies.
This workshopdraws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Topics addressed
- Relation of soma and psyche
- Self-care, self-discipline, and self-estrangement
- Quotidian dimensions of myopia, fever, exhaustion, and headaches
- Dietetics
- Physical process of writing
- Atmospheric impacts on health
- Posture and Walking
- Homeopathy (since ٰDzٱ-üǴڴ was an avid proponent)
- How medical texts generate and categorize knowledge and writing about the body
- Mutability and suffering in nature
- Poetics of Micro-perceptions
- Grief and Death
- Vaccine debates
Timestamps
0:00:00 - Welcome
0:09:18 - Marion Baschin, Institute for the History of Medicine, Robert Bosch Foundation, “I am under a great strain...”: ٰDzٱ-üǴڴ, Homeopathy and Care
0:53:35 - Vanessa Höving, FernUniversität in Hagen, Spheres of Life: Illness, Death, and Survival in ٰDzٱ-üǴڴ’s early prose
1:50:02 - Alice Kuzniar, University of ݮƵ, From Illness to a Poetics of Somatic Micro-Perception
2:43:51 - Thomas Wortmann, Universität Mannheim, Sich krank schreiben: Illness and The Act of Writing in ٰDzٱ-üǴڴ
3:33:15 - Martha Helfer, Rutgers University, Death Writes: ٰDzٱ-üǴڴ’s Thanatopoetics
4:18:15 - Christiane Arndt, Queen’s University, Narratives of and by Women in the 19th –century Vaccine and Anti-vaccine Discourses
5:12:25 - Final Discussion
5:35:56 - Closing Remarks