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In 1985, discussing the campaign against Depo-Provera, Christine Dann had written that, ‘Women’s health activists were made painfully aware of what a formidable system they were challenging when doctors, the manufacturing company, the Health Department and ultimately the media closed ranks against them.’ In particular she referred to ‘“the fourth estate”, the media, which claim to be independent of the other powers in society, [but] turn out to share the general reverence for members of the medical profession. A man with M.B.Ch.B. Dip Obsts. [sic] after his name will be given far greater credence than an independent feminist researcher.’1 In the months immediately after the publication of the Cartwright Report, Sandra Coney put this theory to the test. This chapter traces the immediate public responses to the report, as articulated primarily through the popular, medical and nursing press. Coney’s views were given considerable exposure but she also had to defend her ground.
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Sandra Coney, ‘The End of the Experiment,’ NZ Listener, 10 September 1988, pp. 22–24.
G.C. Liggins, ‘The George Addlington Syme Oration: Winds of Change,’ Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, vol. 61, 1991, p. 169.
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C.S. Harison, ‘Ethics after Cartwright,’ Correspondence, NZMJ, vol. 104, 1991, p. 235 (Harison qualified in medicine in 1954).
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Joy Bickley, ‘What the Cervical Cancer Inquiry Report Means for Nurses,’ NZNJ, vol. 81, 8, September 1988, pp. 14–15.
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Valerie Fleming, ‘Angst over Cancer Inquiry Comments,’ Letter to the Editor, NZNJ, vol. 81, 10, October 1988, p. 3.
Sallyann Thompson, ‘The Cartwright Inquiry,’ Correspondence, NZMJ, vol. 103, 1990, p. 436.
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Bryder, L. (2010). Media Wars: The Report’s Reception. In: Women’s Bodies and Medical Science. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-25110-6_9
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