Abstract
Dr Halliday Sutherland and Dr Letitia Fairfield are not immediately-recognisable names today, but in mid-twentieth century Britain both these Catholics doctors attained high public profiles as doughty defenders of the Church’s opposition to birth control. Responding to the advent of new contraceptive technologies and modernity’s aspiration to control nature and celebrate married love, these influential medical professionals were representative of the efforts of an educated Catholic laity to dialogue with ‘sexual modernity’ and refashion a Catholic medico-moral code in which the heuristic of ‘the natural’ could be inflected through medical and scientific frameworks.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Contemporary British History |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 22 Jun 2020 |