The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture titled “Birthing Nature: Why One Childbirth Drug Was Natural and Another Was Not” Oct. 15 from noon to 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Naomi Rendina, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, will present.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested.
An informal lunch will be served.
About the talk
Some of the greatest obstetric innovations have been pharmaceutical pain relief methods and labor-inducing drugs. However, the existing historical narrative focuses on technological and surgical interventions in childbirth.
In her talk, Rendina aims to shift the focus from surgical and technological interventions in birth to pharmaceutical interventions and how drugs used to induce labor reshaped American childbirth.