[Sci-tech-public] April 19th talk at Harvard -- The Estrogen Elixir: Women and Science in the Making and Unmaking of Hormone Replacement Therapy

[Debbie Meinbresse]

The Estrogen Elixir: Women and Science in the Making

and Unmaking of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Elizabeth Watkins will present the third spring 
talk in the Women, Science and Society Seminar Series,

titled “The Estrogen Elixir: Women and Science in 
the Making and Unmaking of  Hormone Replacement

Therapy.”  Dr. Watkins studies interplay between 
medicine and culture, including the popularization of

information about health and medicine and the 
roles of gender in medicine. Her most recent book,

The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone 
Replacement Therapy in America, tells the story of the use

and public perception of estrogen since the 19th 
century. Dr. Watkins is an Associate Professor in the

School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

HMS Conference Center, HIM Room 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

A small reception with the guest speaker will follow.

Sponsored by

Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity

To learn more about this talk (including 
directions and parking options) and other

FD&D upcoming events, please visit the Faculty Affairs website

www.faculty.harvard.edu/events or contact Sylviose Dossous at

sylviose_dossous at harvard.edu or 495-9228.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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