Article ID: CBB068912434

English and French Women Doctors in International Debates on birth control (1920–1935) (2018)

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This paper focuses on the roles played by English and French women doctors in international debates about birth control (1920-1935). It highlights the concrete impact of different national policies relating to family and reproductive health on women doctors’ stances on birth control. It shows the significant role of English medical women in the practical aspects of birth control and the reluctance of French female doctors to engage with issues revolving around reproduction. It argues that English women doctors were among the leaders in the process of medicalisation of birth control at international conferences due to their practical experience and expertise in birth control acquired at the national level.

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Authors & Contributors
Cahan, David L.
Dyck, Erika
Fauque, Danielle M. E.
Finn, Michael
Kitts, David Burlingame
Mann, Gregory
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Health and History
Social History of Medicine
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
University of Oklahoma
Columbia University
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Economía y Geografía
Manchester University Press
University of Toronto Press
Concepts
Cross-national interaction
Reproduction
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Women in medicine
Medicine
Correspondence and corresponding
People
Banks, Joseph
Berthollet, Claude Louis
Blagden, Sir Charles
Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard
Darwin, Charles Robert
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Places
France
England
Great Britain
Mali
Australia
Canada
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Royal Society of London
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Observatoire de Paris
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
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