Media

Click here to view, 'Decriminalising abortion - what now for the other states?', published on Crikey.com on 27 October 2008.

Click here to open a 2007 article about Samuel Pozzi, by Caroline de Costa and Francesca Miller, published in the Journal of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Caroline has a strong interest in the life and work of the French 'father of gynaecology' Samuel Pozzi. With Los Angeles based writer Francesca Miller, she has written several articles about him and continues research into this period of French medical history.

Click here to view the 2005 article in the Medical Journal of Australia by Caroline de Costa that was part of the beginning of the national campaign to overturn the Harradine amendment and allow RU486 to be available to Australian women.

Bibliography

Recent Publications

Costa C, Howat P:
Admitting term infants to neonatal intensive care units in Australia.
'Birth', 2008 Sep;35(3):259.

Coyne KL, de Costa CM, Heazlewood RJ, Newman HC:
Pregnancy characteristics of women giving birth to children with fetal alcohol syndrome in Far North Queensland.
'Australia and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology', 2008 Jun;48(3):240-7.

de Costa CM, Russell DB, de Costa NR, Carrette M, McNamee HM:
Introducing early medical abortion in Australia: there is a need to update abortion laws.
'Sex Health'. 2007 Dec;4(4):223-6.

de Costa CM:
Snow--at Christmas.
'Medical Journal of Australia' 2007 Dec 3-17;187(11-12):690-2.

de Costa C, Miller F:
Sarah Bernhardt's 'Doctor God': Jean-Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918).
'Australia and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecolog, ds2007 Oct;47(5):352-6.

De Costa C, Rane A:
Why would anyone be an academic?
Med J Aust. 2007 Sep 17;187(6):374-5.

de Costa CM, Russell DB, de Costa NR, Carrette M, McNamee HM:
Early medical abortion in Cairns, Queensland: July 2006 - April 2007.
Med J Aust. 2007 Aug 6;187(3):171-3. Review.

De Costa CM, Calcutt C:
Antenatal care implications of population-based trends in Down syndrome birth rates.
Med J Aust. 2007 Jun 18;186(12):663.

de Costa CM:
Early medical abortion in Australia: more common than statistics suggest?
Med J Aust. 2006 Sep 18;185(6):341.