Amanda Mahoney BSN, an oncology nurse with an art history background and a Penn Nursing doctoral student. This lecture focuses on the nurse as a part of a surgicial team in Thomas Eakins's The Agnew Clinic. Mary V. Clymer was an 1889 graduate of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Her class notes and clinical journals have served an important role in the interpretation of The Agnew Clinic as a work of art and an image of its time. This lecture will discuss this well-known painting and its place in the history of the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Nursing Homecoming Weekend
Friday, November 6, 2009
2:30-4:00pm

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