Test-tubes and turpitude: infertility and artificial insemination in mid-twentieth-century Scotland
- đ¤ Speaker: Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh)
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 16 October 2012, 17:00 - 18:30
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Abstract
Gayle Davis is Wellcome Trust Lecturer in History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author, among other works, of ’The Cruel Madness of Love’: Sex, Syphilis and Psychiatry in Scotland, 1880-1930 (2008) and co-author of The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950-80 (2012).
The talk will preview research in a project on the history of reproductive health, clinical practice and policy-making in Scotland after World War II, using as case studies abortion, contraception and infertility.
Series This talk is part of the Generation to Reproduction Seminars series.
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Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday 16 October 2012, 17:00-18:30