The History of Black Midwives: A Virtual Roundtable
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The History of Black Midwives: A Virtual Roundtable
Feb. 15, 2022
4 PM – 6 PM (Eastern Time)
In celebration of Black History Month, the UVA Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry is pleased to host a panel discussion of distinguished scholars, featuring Dr. Wangui Muigai, a historian of medicine at Brandeis University who is writing a book on the history of Black infant mortality in the U.S.; Dr. Michelle Drew, a practicing midwife and chair of the American College of Nurse Midwives Caucus for Reproductive Justice and Birth Equity; and Dr. Gertrude Fraser, associate professor in UVA's Department of Anthropology and author of African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. View the full program.
Zoom link:
https://virginia.zoom.us/j/99887291488?pwd=dVJWeENjY1Q1SzRlVzRHaUs2ZlpMUT09
Meeting ID: 998 8729 1488
Passcode: 330942
For more information contact:
Maura Singleton
Center Manager
Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
E mks2d@virginia.edu
P 434.924.0083; 434.989.1550 (cell)
UVA School of Nursing
McLeod Hall
202 Jeanette Lancaster Way
P.O. Box 800782
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0782