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.
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2022

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Szuhan, Natasha

Palgrave Macmillan : Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history, Cham, Switzerland, 2022

Switzerland, Switzerland

1st ed. 2022, 2022

Cham, Cham, 2022

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Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
Testing and Regulating Contraceptive Technologies: Contemporary Historiography
Historical and Cultural Context: Competing Theories of Population and Birth Control
Professionalising Birth Control Through Medico-Scientific Sex Research
Developing Sex and Contraceptive Research in Britain
Navigating Eugenic and Contraceptive Science
Notes
2 Instituting and Regulating the Contraceptive Clinic and its Services
Identifying and Exploiting a Medico-Scientific Niche for Contraceptive Clinics
The North Kensington Women’s Welfare Centre’s Medico-Scientific Direction
Configuring the North Kensington Clinic and Service in Response to Official Resistance
Introducing Specialist Medical Services and Standards
Conclusion
Notes
3 Teaching and Networking the Wright Way
Defining the Wright Association Standards for Lay Sex and Contraceptive Education
Wright’s Lay Prescription for a Healthy Family and Sex Life: Birth Control
The National Birth Control Association and Contraceptive Training for Doctors and Nurses
Teaching the Wright Contraceptive Technique to Doctors
The Impact of Sex and Fertility Education and the Royal Commission on Population
Uniting Pro-family Planning Voluntary Efforts and Lobbying to National Educational Effect
Conclusion
Notes
4 Employing Pure and Applied Science to Assess Contraceptive Technologies
The Approved List: Testing Contraceptive Effectiveness, 1928–1937, and Beyond
Contraceptive Data Collection and Scientific and Clinical Statistical Research
Cornering the Market: Mid-Century Contraceptive Harmlessness and Rubber Research
Conclusion
Notes
5 Contraceptive Standards in the Age of the Pill: Influencing and Exporting Formal Oversight
Exporting the Approved List and Contraceptive Standards Research to Official Regulators
The Medical Profession, Association, and Hormonal Contraceptive Science
Making the Pill Safe for Family Planning Association and British Prescription
Conclusion
Notes
6 Conclusion: The Fittest Survived?
Notes
Index

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 Sociology at the Australian National University and teaches History at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests lie broadly within and around the history of science, technology, and medicine

"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"--Cover page 4

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