Event Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
2021 Visiting Speaker Series in the History of Medicine: Challenging Choices: Canada's Population Control in the 1970s
Wednesday November 10
5 pm
Delivered on Zoom (Register here)
Erika Dyck, PhD
CRC in the History of Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
Maureen Lux, PhD
Professor, History
Brock University
The challenges of global reproductive health are complex and multifaceted, and the issue of population control touches upon the sensitive areas of contraception, abortion, reproductive politics, personal autonomy, and more. By the 1970s, Canadians enjoyed greater sexual freedoms, legal access to birth control, and the decriminalization of homosexuality … against the shadow of eugenics. Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux explore who had access to reproductive choices and who remained under the state's watchful eye in a new era of family planning.
An event organized by the History of Medicine Program at Western
Contact Person: Hannah Professor Shelley McKellar smckell@uwo.ca