“very Vulgar and too Familier”: shame and healthcare in the early modern household
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The Shame and Medicine Project in collaboration with the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, will run a seminar series over the next few years which will examine shame and stigma in the context of medical history.
27th March 2025 – Dr Emily Cock (Cardiff University) – ONLINE ONLY
TITLE: “very Vulgar and too Familier”: shame and healthcare in the early modern household
ABSTRACT: This paper considers the impact of shame for managing health and disability in the early modern household through a microhistorical study of unmarried gentry woman Gertrude Savile (1697-1758) and her shifting cast of carers and cared-for: her family, friends, servants, pets, and practitioners. In a household of fraught hierarchies, requiring or delivering treatment for embarrassing ailments like anal fistulas, or failing to meet social and economic obligations due to immobility, threatened your honour and position. Savile has been unjustly denigrated by historians as a lonely and anxious spinster, but her extensive life writing in diaries, account books and other genres give a unique insight into the impact of shifting health problems on household relationships and management.
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