AUBURN — The Auburn Public Library will welcome Maine author and historian Annette Vance Dorey on Friday, Feb. 22, for a lecture on health care in the city from the mid-1800s to the 1920s.
It is part of the city’s 150th birthday celebration.
The lecture begins at 11 a.m. and will include profiles of some of the local pioneering female physicians, as well as the rarely-known private hospitals, infirmaries and clinics.
Dorey is a lifelong learner and educator whose career has taken her from the Midwest, to the Southwest, to Canada and New England. Her graduate work in developmental psychology and family relationships included research with parents, children and siblings at Colorado State University.
She is a former professor of teacher education and human development at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
Her major publications are based on extensive historical research and include the history of early 20th-century campaigns to reduce high infant mortality rates and improve child health. Her published works include “Better Baby Contests: The Scientific Quest for Perfect Childhood Health in the Early 20th Century”, “Maine Mothers Who Murdered 1875―1925: Doing Time in State Prison” and Miss Dr. Lucy-Maine’s Pioneering Female Physicians.”
For more information, call the library at 207-333-6640.
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