Health and Home in Occupation-Era Japan: Promoting Medical Knowledge in Popular Women's Magazines
Health and Home in Occupation-Era Japan: Promoting Medical Knowledge in Popular Women's Magazines
History
Thursday, October 4, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Francis Scott Key Hall,
The Merril Room (2120)
Join the Miller Center for a lunch talk with Dr. W. Evan Young.
Dr. W. Evan Young is an Assistant Professor of History at Dickinson College. He specializes in the history of illness and therapy in early modern and modern Japan. Dr. Young is currently working on a new project that examines the transformation of domestic medicine from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, focusing on women's roles as providers of healthcare and feminine ideals of caregiving in didactic literature and popular print.