'Reframing the Laws of Life? Birth Control Advice and the evolution of English Catholic Sexology, 1921-1938
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25 janvier 2016
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Destitution Birth Life--Philosophy Birth Obstetric labor Moral philosophy Science, Moral Morals Ethics, Primitive Philosophy, Moral Morality Deontology Ethology Birth Birthing Live birth Child birth Pregnancy--Prevention Population control Date of birth Biography--Birth illnessCiter ce document
Alana Harris, « 'Reframing the Laws of Life? Birth Control Advice and the evolution of English Catholic Sexology, 1921-1938 », Sexologies européennes, ID : 10.58079/u0v9
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Alana Harris In 1938 the Senior Medical Officer for the London County Council, Dr Letitia Fairfield, undertook a social-scientific mission to the then predominantly Catholic colony of Malta to examine the prevalence and prevention of the spread of venereal disease. It was a revelatory experience, leading the staunch Catholic convert to acknowledge, empirically, the links between poverty, clericalism and unconscionable infant morality and thereby revisit her earlier opposition to birth contro...