Kelly O’Donnell
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Kelly O’Donnell is a PhD student in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. She earned her B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College in 2009. Here at Yale she studies the history of medicine and the history of women and gender in the mid-to-late twentieth century United States. Primarily a historian of women’s health, she is also interested in technology, consumer culture, and memory studies. Her dissertation, a biography of journalist and feminist health activist Barbara Seaman, examines the rise of the empowered patient, the internal politics of the women’s movement, and issues of gender and sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s.