"The Social and Legal Implications of Artificial Insemination"

  • Mabel Winifred Burns (nee Ridd)
Date:
1949
Reference:
MS.8840
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Typed notes of lecture arranged by the National Association of Probation Officers, Middlesex Branch, Guildhall, Westminster, 17 May 1949: speakers were Dr Mary Barton, Dr Gilbert Russell, and Dr Letitia Fairfield. Taken by Mabel Winifred Burns (nee Ridd) (b. 1898)

Mary Barton was a gynaecologist and a pioneer in the use of artificial insemination for infertile couples; Gilbert Russell was a medical doctor and Anglican clergyman who has been secretary of the Archbishop of Canterbury's committee on AID; Letitia Fairfield was a medical doctor and qualified barrister

Publication/Creation

1949

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1 file

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Acquisition note

This item was given to the library at Wellcome Collection by Mrs Burns' granddaughter in November 2012

Related material

In Wellcome: Further material on Dr Barton and her involvement in AID may be found in the records of the Eugenics Society (SA/EUG). The papers of Dr Letitia Fairfield are available at GC/193. Material held elsewhere: Material relating to Fairfield's work at the London County Council is held by the London Metropolitan Archives, and on her work in both world wars is held by the Imperial War Museum, London.

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  • 1956