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"Women, Medicine, and The Vibrator Play," March 13, 2013

Anne-Laure Talbot PhD, SMD 13, Producer, In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play, Live Arts, Charlottesville VA Julie Hamberg, Director, In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play, Live Arts, Charlottesville VA Anita Clayton MD, Professor of Psychiatry, UVA Alison Booth PhD, Professor of English, UVA Western medicine from Hippocrates and Galen forward, viewing women through an androcentric lens, explained some women's behavior--from headache to "troublemaking"--as unhealthful signs of "hysteria," a suffocating madness due to a wandering womb. Centuries, even millennia before Freud asked, "What do women really want?" medical men assumed they knew what women with hysteria needed, and that remedy was pelvic massage to "paroxysm." By the late nineteenth century, with manufacture of electrified massage instruments, doctors could deliver therapy more quickly and efficiently. This medical--not sexualized--treatment, the Victorian social milieu in which it was prevalent (and popular), and (mis)understandings of intimacy, female sexuality, and inequality are the subjects of young American playwright Sarah Ruhl's comedy, "In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play" (2010). This Medical Center Hour's panelists explore a rich mix of ideas having to do with women, medicine, and "The Vibrator Play." Offered in conjunction with LiveArts' production of "In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play", 1-23 March