Adelaide C. and Alan L. Bird, professor of history, will discuss the different ways people experienced and dealt with illness in the antebellum South through the research of Marli Weiner for her book “Defining the Body: Race, Sex and Place in the Antebellum South,” which is the first of a series on “‘I Was a Great Deal Alarmed’: Women Experiencing Illness and Caring for the Sick in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South.” The first book is being considered for publication at the University of Illinois Press. The discussion will be held at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union at the University of Maine.
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