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2024 Annual Freedeman LectureThursday, October 24
4:30-6 p.m. in Admissions Hall, Room 189
Bianca Premo
Professor of History and International & Public Affairs
Florida International University
“Doctors of History: Transnational Medical Interventions into the Case of Peru’s Youngest Mother in the World”
Drawn from her most recent book project, “The Smallest Subject: Peru’s Youngest Mother in the World and the Rise of Modern Research Ethics,” this talk explores the intersections between 20th century medicine and ethics, girlhood, and Latinx history. This talk profiles five male physicians who became involved in the case of Peru’s five-year-old mother, who gave birth to a healthy baby boy in Lima in 1939. It lines up these men to show how the case challenged or shaped their complex ethical considerations of the science of race, gender, and age. These physicians include two Peruvians: the girl’s attending physician and a major physician and statemen who orchestrated the state’s reaction to the children’s care. It also includes an anti-Francoist Spanish endocrinologist whose work was highly influential in 20th century understandings of sexuality and gender. And it includes two US physicians: one Houston doctor who rushed to insert himself in the case to capitalize on the new horizons it opened on the science of ageing; and another, the editor of the JAMA, who refused to believe the case was real.
Sponsored by the Turovsky/Casey Family Fund, the Department of History, and the Harpur College Office of the Dean
https://sipa.fiu.edu/people/faculty/history/premo.bianca.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Admissions Hall, Room 189 (Binghamton University), 117 Pilgrim Rd, Boston, MA 02215-4107, United States,Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline
