Series 23 - Fertility


Date Range1976 - 2003
ProvenanceWEL Cairns
Description

Folders containing information on sterilisation, surrogacy, IVF, family planning, childbirth etc

ArrangedOrder imposed by Archives

Inventory Listing

Family Planning - Overseas Aid Program

Contains letters

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1996
Inventory Identifier WELC00141 Box Number 48 Series 23
Fertility issues

WEL correspondence and press releases;
"Fertility control in the 90s" - an interview with Malcolm Potts - Family Planning Unit (NSW) February 1990;
Paper by RG Hooper - Electronic Millenialists, May 1980

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1980 - 1997
Inventory Identifier WELC00216 Box Number 47 Series 23
IVF - Articles

Various journal artilces relating to fertility, reproductive technology and embryo research.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1980 - 1992
Inventory Identifier WELC00595 Box Number 47 Series 23
Fertility Issues - Newspaper Clippings

Newspaper clippings and articles from various pubilications including Cairns Post, The Age, The Australian, National Times, Townsville Bulletin, Courier Mail, Sydney Morning Herald

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1980 - 1986
Inventory Identifier WELC00596 Box Number 47 Series 23
IVF/Surrogacy - Newspaper clippings

Newspaper clippings and articles from various pubilications including Cairns Post, The Age, The Australian, The Sunday Sun, The National Times, Courier Mail

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1976 - 1985
Inventory Identifier WELC00597 Box Number 47 Series 23
IVF/Surrogacy

Newsclippings from Cairns Post, Courier Mail, The Age, Sunday Sun

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1986 - 2000
Inventory Identifier WELC00637 Box Number 47 Series 23
Sterilisation

Contains correspondence and press releases regarding lack of sterilisation services in Queensland public hospitals;
Correspondence from Health Minister, Ken Hayward regarding current review of the law on sterilisation for family planning purposes in Queensland public hospitals;
Copy of 1976 Department of Health Memorandum to Medical Superintendents re sterilisation operations being 'outside the law';
Copy of Sterilisation Procedures Memorandum by Cairns Hospital Board, 31 May 1976

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1976 - 1992
Inventory Identifier WELC00523 Box Number 47 Series 23
Family Planning Association of Queensland

Includes correspondence on the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health; Review of the activities of the Family Planning Associations and Family Planning Inc

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1994 - 2002
Inventory Identifier WELC00089 Box Number 48 Series 23
Family planning

Contains letters; draft of an advisory booklet for the youth of Cairns; Family Planning Information Service Vol 1(1), February 1978; Papers from a Seminar on family planning, Canberra, 26/2/1980

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1978 - 1996
Inventory Identifier WELC00564 Box Number 48 Series 23
IVF

Various Correspondence;
"In Vitro Fertilization and Artificial Insemination by Donor - Social, Clinical and Legal and Ethical Issues Facing Health Professionals and the Community" - Proceedings of the Seminar and Public Lecture held by the South Australian Postgraduate Medical Education Association Incorporated at the Robson Lecture Theatre, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide 28 July 1984;
Magazine article "Zoe, you're a world first";
Report of the Working Party on Invitro Fertilization and Artificial Insemination by Donor, South Australia, January 1984.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1984
Inventory Identifier WELC00219 Box Number 47 Series 23
Family Planning Association

The Family Planning Association of Queensland is a voluntary organisation and a registered charity, providing health services as well as education and training facilities in the field of fertility control and human sexuality. The Association was inaugurated at a public meeting on 27/9/1971.
Contains letters; Ninth Annual Report 1979-80; Tenth Annual Report 1980-81; brochures

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1979 - 2002
Inventory Identifier WELC00565 Box Number 48 Series 23
IVF

Contains various letters and media releases;
Newsletter of WEL - May 2003;
Correspondence on "Artificial Fertility Services & the Sex Discrimination Act";
Medicare funding for IVF treatment;
Senate Question No 602, 14 December 1983;
Morgan Research Centre Survey - "Australians Favor Test Tube Baby Method", May 1983;
"Australian Community Attitudes to In Vitro Fertilization and the Donation of Gametes" by Margaret Brumby, Centre for Human Bioethics and Faculty of Education, Monash University.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1982 - 2003
Inventory Identifier WELC00217 Box Number 47 Series 23
Fact sheets on Abortion

Contains fact sheets published by the Abortion Rights Coalition

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1988 - 1989
Inventory Identifier WELC00215 Box Number 57 Series 23
Surrogacy

Contains letters; newspaper clippings

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1989 - 1991
Inventory Identifier WELC00566 Box Number 48 Series 23
IVF

Various correspondence and press releases;
Fax transmission - WEL High Court IVF Protest;
Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Artificial Insemination by Donor, In-Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer Procedures and Related Matters in South Australia - laid on the Table of Legislative Council 9 April 1987 - second session 46th Parliament, South Australia;
Ethical aspects of research on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF): Statement prepared by the Medical Research Ethics Committee in Response to comments received on the Guidelines of the National Health and Medical Research Council;
IVF News from NSW, VIC, QLD, WA - Spring Issue - IF Group Combined Newsletter, 1985.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1984 - 2001
Inventory Identifier WELC00218 Box Number 47 Series 23
Surrogacy

Contains letters; articles for Inkwel; newspaper clippings; transcript from Top of the State, 23/11/1993 re a surrogate parenthood case

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1992 - 1995
Inventory Identifier WELC00220 Box Number 48 Series 23
IVF

Contains excerpts from IVF Boyer Lecture - Charlesworth, November 1989;
Various correspondence and press releases by WEL;
Handwritten notes;
IVF Friends Newsletter

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1982 - 1989
Inventory Identifier WELC00544 Box Number 47 Series 23
IVF

Contains correspondence, journal and newspaper articles;
Handrwitten notes;
Social Implications of Reproductive Technology - Paper delivered at St Vincent's Hospital Bioethics Centre Annual Conference , Dr Robin Rowland, May 1984;
Motherhood, Patriachal Power, Alienation and the Issue of "Choice" in Sex Preselection, Dr Robin Rowland, Netherlands 1984;
Submission Preamble - In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1983 - 1997
Inventory Identifier WELC00585 Box Number 47 Series 23
Surrogacy

Contains letters; transcript of Life Matters, 13/7/1998 on So-called surrogacy in the ACT; newspaper clippings

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1996 - 2003
Inventory Identifier WELC00221 Box Number 48 Series 23
QALA (Queensland Alliance for Legal Abortion)

Contains letters; flyers

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 2000 - 2003
Inventory Identifier WELC00214 Box Number 57 Series 23
WEL Sydney - Position Paper on Human Artificial Insemination

Position Paper for the New South Wales Advisory Committee on Human Artificial Insemination, August 1982.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1982
Inventory Identifier WELC00586 Box Number 47 Series 23
Services for the termination of pregnancy in Australia: a review

Contains copy of the draft consultation document prepared by an expert panel of the National Health and Medical Research Council plus covering letter

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1995
Inventory Identifier WELC00212 Box Number 57 Series 23
Childbirth

Includes a number of articles by Liselott Muhlen-Schulte on obstetric intervention in childbirth.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1988 - 1989    Quantity 10 cm,
Inventory Identifier WELC00105 Box Number 47 Series 23

Published by the James Cook University Library, December 2007
Listed by Alan Cockerill
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