{"id":3278,"date":"2023-04-13T18:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2023-06-21T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T17:42:15","slug":"the-history-of-womens-health-women-practitioners-in-midwest-john-martin-rare-book-room-open-house-lecture-greta-nettleton-speaker-wed-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/2023\/04\/13\/the-history-of-womens-health-women-practitioners-in-midwest-john-martin-rare-book-room-open-house-lecture-greta-nettleton-speaker-wed-may-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Women’s Health & Women Practitioners in Midwest | John Martin Rare Book Room Open House & Lecture | Greta Nettleton, Speaker | Wed. May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"imageJoin Hardin Library staff for the Annual John Martin Rare Book Room Open House featuring a lecture by Greta Nettleton.<\/h3>\n

Wednesday, May 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open House,\u00a0 3-6pm<\/strong>, John Martin Rare Book Room, 446 Hardin Library, 600 Newton Road, Iowa City
\nGreta Nettleton Lecture,\u00a0 6-7pm<\/strong>, Room 401 Hardin Library<\/p>\n

The open house will highlight historical works on women’s health and those by or about women practitioners<\/strong>, including new acquisitions.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Lecture and open house free & open to the public.<\/p>\n

Ms. Nettleton, the author of <\/span>The Quack’s Daughter: A True Story About the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl<\/span><\/i>, published by the University of Iowa Press in 2014, will speak about <\/span>THE GREAT FORGETTING: The Prominent Role of Women in 19th-century Midwestern Medicine<\/span><\/i>. Her talk will dig into the history of the University of Iowa College of Medicine, the first fully co-educational medical school in the nation, and the hidden history of its first female graduates.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Greta Nettleton is <\/span>a<\/span> 2017 fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts<\/span>. <\/span><\/span>The Quack’s<\/span> Daughter<\/span><\/span><\/em> won the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the Rockland County Library System. She is currently at work on a biography of a 19<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span>-century naturopathic Iowa physician named Mrs. Dr. Rebecca Keck, <\/span>whose<\/span> controversial forty-year career began with female folk practice and ended with the dawn of modern medicine.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa\u2013sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Damien Ihrig in advance at 319-335-9154 or damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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