Louise was born on 23rd June, 1962 at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, London. She died on 7th November, 2018 at Churchill Hospital, Oxford. Born with no arms and legs, due to the effects of the drug thalidomide which Louise’s mother took during pregnancy, Louise spent much of her early life at Chailey Heritage Craft […]
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Conferring – a Two-Way Process: Reflections on the 2018 Thalidomide Society Conference
By Brian Payne, Trustee of the Thalidomide Society. In a previous life I was a conference organiser. These were mainly conferences about the early internet and other communications technologies – indeed my first, over 30 years ago, was on mobile phones. I was the proud user of one of those ‘bricks’… not much like the iPhone. […]