The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Natasha Szuhan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 294 Seiten

2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-81299-7 (ISBN)

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This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era. It explores the Association's role in designing and supporting scientific research, employment of scientists, engagement with manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, and use of its facilities, patients, staff, medical, scientific, and political networks to standardise and guarantee contraceptive technology it prescribed and produced. By taking a micro-history approach to the archives of the Association, this book highlights the importance of this organisation to the history of science, technology, and medicine in twentieth-century Britain. It examines the Association's participation within Western family planning networks, working particularly closely with its American counterparts to develop chemical and biological means of testing contraception for efficacy, quality, and safety.

Natasha Szuhan is Lecturer and Researcher in Cultural Studies and History at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Her research interests lie broadly within and around the history of science, technology and medicine.

Chapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Instituting and Regulating the Contraceptive Clinic and Services. - Chapter 3. Teaching and Networking the Wright Way. - Chapter 4. Employing Pure and Applied Science to Assess Contraceptive Technologies. - Chapter 5. Contraceptive Standards in the Age of the Pill: Influencing and Exporting Formal Oversight. - Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Fittest Survived?

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Zusatzinfo	XII, 294 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	487 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	activism • Contraceptive clinic • Demographic Changes • Eugenics • fertility • FPA • National Birth Control Association • NBCA • pill • political networks • Sexual Revolution • women's health
ISBN-10	3-030-81299-5 / 3030812995
ISBN-13	978-3-030-81299-7 / 9783030812997
Zustand	Neuware