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The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
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.
Sexuality and Consumption
In western societies today, it goes almost without saying that sex and consumption are closely related. On the one hand, there is a plethora of commercial goods and services that shape sexual desires, and practices. On the other, there are scarcely any products or services that do not lend themselves to sexually charged advertising and mass media communication. This volume focuses on forms of hybridization of these equally suggestive notions.
Protective Practices
From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. A first-mover and innovator, the company's continuous product development and strong brands (including Durex) allowed it to dominate supply to the retail trade and family planning clinics, leading it to intercede in the burgeoning women's market. When oral contraceptives came along, however, the company was caught in a bind between defending condoms against the pill and claiming a segment of the new birth control market for itself. In this first major study on the company, Jessica Borge shows ...
The business of birth control
The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. Drawing on new archives and neglected promotional and commercial material, the book demonstrates how hundreds of companies transformed condoms and rubber and chemical pessaries into consumer goods that became widely available via discreet mail order catalogues, newspapers, birth control clinics, chemists’ shops and vending machines in an era when older and more reserved ways of thinking about sex jostled uncomfortably with modern and more open attitudes. The book outlines the impact of contraceptive commodification on consumers, but also demonstrates how closely the contraceptive industry was intertwined with the medical profession and the birth control movement, who sought authority in birth control knowledge at a time when sexual knowledge and who had access to it was contested.
医疗社会史研究（第十三辑．第Ⅶ卷第1期）
本书以“中西医学流变与交融”为题，分“专题论文”“学术书评”两个栏目，共收入15篇文章。专题论文共计13篇文章，各位作者围绕19世纪前欧洲“歇斯底里”概念、“食疗”、美国奴隶的饮食、中世纪西欧对精神疾病的认知构建、《千金方》“凡猪肉”的文本源流、“恶水”、清代霍乱流行的自然与社会要素、晚清传教士鸦片戒治疗法、新中国上海清理中药伪药的实践等内容展开研究；学术书评2篇，分别评价了《阿斯伯格的孩子们：纳粹治下维也纳孤独症的起源》《反鸦片斗士：新教传教士在中国（1874-1917）》。
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Disciplining Reproduction
Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle. Adele Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge across the twentieth century is colorful and fraught with conflict. Modern scientific study of reproduction, human and animal, began in the United States in an overlapping triad of fields: biology, medicine, and agriculture. Clarke traces the complicated paths through which physiological approaches to reproduction led to endocrinological approaches, creating along the way new technoscientific products from ...
Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship
Introduction: The origins and practice of family history in Australia, Britain and Canada -- 'Giving Little People a Voice': Family historians, the 'new social history' and public history -- 'She told me I had destroyed her memories': How family historians work with memory -- It 'makes me come alive': The emotional impact of family history -- 'Random acts of genealogical kindness': How family historians share their knowledge and break down national boundaries -- 'I'm much more empathetic now': Family history, historical thinking and the construction of empathy -- 'I don't want my life to mean nothing': The future of family history.
The Malthusian Handbook; Designed to Induce Married People to Limit Their Families Within Their Means.
The Malthusian Handbook; Designed to Induce Married People to Limit Their Families Within Their Means., has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. This book is not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
