By Ariel Hart and Michael Lambert

Photo: Francisco Venâncio

This seminar examined the values of public health work targeting maternal and child welfare in the 20th century. Hart interrogated the social, political, and radical implications of new mid-century US public health surveillance programmes, looking at Black pregancy-related mortality and public health surveillance. Lambert considered the role of UK Medical Officers of Health in perpetrating reproductive injustice, highlighting the role of Medical Officers of Health in mid 20th century Britain. ​ 

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