Not an Accident: The Work of Thalidomide in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's History
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: In the late 1950s and early 1960s, thousands of women gave birth to children with impairments after consuming thalidomide during their pregnancies. The scandal has been discussed from legal, medical, and scientific perspectives, yet the position of women in the tragedy remains relatively underaddressed. The scandal is often described as a tragic accident that will not be repeated due to changes in pharmaceutical testing and regulation. I argue that the thalidomide tragedy was not an accident but was the result of competing social, economic, and cultural conditions and priorities within which mid-twentieth-century women were situated. I also consider the work that thalidomide accomplished in women's history by positing that the drug contributed to constructions of the unstable pregnant woman in need of expert medicalized intervention, in alignment with narratives that served contemporaneous public interests. I further consider how the effects of that work linger in social locations relevant to women.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it