Science & Medicine Episodes

In this episode, historian Felicity Turner joins The Clio Dialogues host Jennifer Robin Terry to discuss 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺: 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘓𝘢𝘸, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. They talk about nineteenth-century infanticide investigations in which women’s experience, expertise, and testimony regarding pregnancy and childbirth, before all-male juries, was key to the process. But as medicine professionalized, authority shifted toward licensed male physicians, and with it, women los...