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Sarah Stone, William Cadogan and Enlightenment motherhood

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Sarah Stone practiced midwifery in Somerset in the early eighteenth century and published a book of her cases. My talk explores the texture of her practice and the ways in which she mobilizes Enlightenment categories in ways we might not expect from a rural midwife. Indeed, I argue that she has much in common with William Cadogan, the urbane physician to the London foundling hospital who was a key architect of Enlightenment motherhood.

Mary Fissell is a historian of medicine, gender, and the body who teaches in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, where she also co-edits the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. She is the author of a number of articles and two books, most recently Vernacular Bodies (Oxford, 2004). She is currently working on a social and cultural history of Aristotle’s Masterpiece, the bestselling book on sex and reproduction from 1684 into the 20th century.

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