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Knowledge, negotiation and nervous disorder in the diary and letters of Sara Coleridge, 1832-43 - Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick), keynote speaker Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850 This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, publication, apprenticeship, and training while considering how women engaged in medical practice in a variety of contexts.