Women and Health Care Talk at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Dr. Ellen More will deliver the annual Katherine A. Henry '86 Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. More's lecture is free and open to the public.

More is a Bunting-Schlesinger Library Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. She is also professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Institute for Medical Humanities. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester.

Editor for the Medical Humanities Review, More's most recent book, "Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995" (Harvard University Press, 1999), utilizes the metaphor of "balance" to understand the career choices of American women physicians.

More's research and teaching fields include the history of American medicine and health care, women in American medicine from 1850 to the present and, more recently, the controversy over sex education programs.

More's main lecture topic will be a look at the policies and philosophy of leading sex education advocates, in particular the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States and its director, Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-98).

This lecture is part of the Katherine A. Henry '86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women's Health Issues. Henry's parents endowed the lecture series in memory of their daughter who died in 1997.