Month: September 2018
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Elevator pitch
The idea of an “elevator pitch” is to briefly encapsulate a story into the bare essentials. Here’s a summary of the trial of Dr Halliday Sutherland in the High Court in 1923: Dr Sutherland’s fight against a deadly disease led him to speak out publicly against negative eugenics and into a ferocious battle against eugenists. When…
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Dr A. Louise McIlroy
On July 7th, 1921, Dr. A. Louise McIlroy read a paper entitled: “Some Factors in the Control of the Birth-rate.” In the discussion that followed, she made the remark that was quoted by Dr Sutherland in “Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine Against the Neo-Malthusians”. The shorthand writer’s record read as follows: Medical-Legal Society 11,…