About Natasha
Dr Natasha Szuhan is an Australian historian and sociologist whose research focuses on the intersection of science, technology, sexuality, gender and health.
Natasha lectures in History and Sociology at the Australian National University. She holds a BA (Hons) and Graduate Diploma in the Humanities and Social Sciences, an MA (Research) and PhD (University of Melbourne). Natasha has completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the medical humanities with the University of Strathclyde and Shanghai University and researched and lectured at the Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide, University of New South Wales, and Shanghai University. She has published two manuscripts and is currently working up an Australian Research Council application for ‘An oral History of Oral Contraceptives in Australia’.
Natasha has conducted two major historical research projects and both have been published as books. Details are below.
The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain
This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era. It explores the Association’s role in designing and supporting scientific research, employment of scientists, engagement with manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, and use of its facilities, patients, staff, medical, scientific, and political networks to standardise and guarantee contraceptive technology it prescribed and produced.
Prahran and the Dismal Swamp
This book explains that the natural, settlement and disease ecologies which manifested in nineteenth century Prahran, Melbourne combined to cause and perpetuate epidemic and later endemic typhoid fever in the locality until effective methods of drainage and sewerage were implemented.
