'A tragedy as old as history':Medical responses to infertility and artificial insemination by donor in 1950s Britain

This chapter will explore how the infertile patient was characterized, perceived, and treated by the medical profession in 1950s England and Scotland. Such was the concern that this subject engendered in postwar Britain that a Departmental Committee was appointed in 1958 (known as the Feversham Committee) to investigate infertility and its treatment through artificial insemination. The written and oral evidence submitted by medical witnesses to that Committee offers rich insights into medical thinking and practice, and into the complex sociomedical politics and ethical anxieties which surrounded the topic. The testimony of legal and religious witnesses will also be explored to a more limited extent in order to offer some context to medical understandings and treatments of infertility. It will be considered how women’s bodies, personalities, and even agency in proactively seeking motherhood through artificial insemination were heavily pathologized in medical and religious discourses, but also how the men involved – husbands, sperm donors and even doctors – did not escape this tendency to pathologize

Alfred C. Kinsey: A public/private life

No abstract.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/34529/1/33_ftp.pd

How Gender Changed the History of Medicine

Lecture associated with "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians" traveling exhibitionLaupus Library History Collections & the Department of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies sponsor the History of Medicine Presentations as an educational service for the East Carolina University community. The Library hopes that the speakers and topics selected will promote a greater understanding of the historical and philosophical underpinnings of today's health care disciplines.Laupus Library History Collections & the Department of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studie

A Contribuição Feminina à Teoria e Prática da Saúde nos Estados Unidos nos séculos XIX e XX

Ao examinar a história das contribuições das mulheres para a atenção à saúde nos Estados Unidos, ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX, este artigo sugere que as reformadoras enfatizavam as necessidades especiais e as aptidões particulares das mulheres para as práticas de atenção à saúde. A maioria delas aceitava as diferenças femininas e afirmava que elas podiam desempenhar um papel especial na medicina, particularmente a defesa dos cuidados para com as mulheres e crianças. Considerando as críticas feministas do século XX, como é possível compreender os modos através dos quais as noções de diferença feminina tanto ajudaram quanto limitaram as mulheres no passado? Como poderemos difundir uma noção mais completa de igualdade feminina na atenção à saúde que leve em consideração as necessidades especiais das mulheres

Interview with Paul Steele

Transcript of audio recording for the Oral History Project on Women in Medicine. The project was supported by a grant from Roche Laboratories, division of Hoffman-La Roche Inc., 1978

Interview with Natalie Shainess, MD

Transcript of audio recording for the Oral History Project on Women in Medicine. The project was supported by a grant from Roche Laboratories, division of Hoffman-La Roche Inc., 1978