[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 12 August 2024 at 5.30pm

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The Gendering of Ageing in the Emergence of Biomedicine

Alison Downham Moore (Western Sydney University)


Dates: Monday, 19/08/2024
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F09.331. Madsen Building. Madsen Seminar Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required
Abstract: This talk is about how the sexes in ageing came to be differentiated in emergent biomedicine, with a focus on French, German, Latin and English texts of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I consider what impact these ideas may have had on the modern medical description of menopause and andropause, proposing four distinct ‘temporal layers’ that converged in the historical bifurcation of the ageing sexes: 1. Early-modern uses of Ptolemaic astrology toward a theory of life-cycles and climacterics; 2. the emergent description of the specific diseases of women, 3. the intercultural discovery of women’s greater longevity, and 4. the ethnographic description of ageing and the elderly in diverse world cultures viewed through a colonial lens. Questions of sex difference in ageing not only impacted how older women were subject to far greater medicalisation than older men throughout the nineteenth century, but also enabled European physicians to reject vitalist premises that equated general health with longevity, instead bifurcating morbidity from mortality with reference to the emergent concept of chronic disease.



Bio: Alison Downham Moore is a historian of gender, medicine and health at Western Sydney University, author of 3 books, 60-odd peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, editor of 2 anthologies, 3 journal special editions, and is Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies. She is currently completing the final outcomes of an ARC Discovery-funded project on 'Sexual Ageing in the History of Medicine',  including a monograph contracted in the Cambridge University Press series Elements in the Global Health Humanities, from which her current to talk is drawn. Her most recent monograph, published by Oxford University Press in 2022 was The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing.




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