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The History of Three Scientific Societies: The Society for the Study of Fertility (now the Society for Reproduction and Fertility) (Britain), the Société Française pour l'Étude de la Fertilité, and the Society for the Study of Reproduction (USA) (2007)

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 38
Pages: 340--357

Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on agricultural and reproductive technologies
Language: English

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Societies; institutions; academies Reproduction Biology Agriculture 20th century, late Great Britain United States France

Three scientific societies devoted to the study of reproduction were established in Britain, France and USA in the middle of the twentieth century by clinical, veterinary and agricultural scientists. The principal motivation for their establishment had been the study of sterility and fertility of people and livestock. There was also a wider perspective embracing other biologists interested in reproduction more generally. Knowledge disseminated through the societies' scientific meetings and publications would bear upon human and animal population problems as well as basic reproductive physiology and its applications. New journals dealing with reproductive physiology, having worldwide appeal, were established in Britain and USA. The financial resources of at least one of the societies and its journal are directed towards charitable functions, including financial support for travel to scientific meetings, for visits to particular laboratories, and for research in the short term, including that of undergraduates. Perhaps the example of the British society has given rise to others having a more specialised focus, as well as to the formation of the European Society for the Study of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

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Article Wilmot, Sarah (2007) Between the Farm and the Clinic: Agriculture and Reproductive Technology in the Twentieth Century. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (p. 303). unapi

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