Monday, February 14, 2011

Women and Medicine at the Folger


For those of you who will be in the Washington, D.C. area in the next few months, be sure to stop by and visit the Folger Shakepeare Library's current exhibit, Beyond Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science.

Running until May 14, 2011, the exhibit explores early modern women's medical work by "drawing on manuscript recipe books and printed medical treatises owned and written by women of all classes, as well as natural history specimens from the Smithsonian Institution, . . . and relates it to the published works of the major male scientists of the day."

Of special interest to Medica members, among the books featured in the Library' gift shop display for the exhibition is our own Louise Bishop's Word, Stones, & Herbs: The Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2007). Way to go, Louise!

For more information on the exhibit, go to http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=3699.