In the eyes of Pincus and Sanger, Puerto Rico was the perfect place. At the time, it was in the midst of a population boom, and poverty was rampant. It was also home to birth control clinics that had once been funded by the U.S. government under New Deal programs. Now, Procter &...
In the middle of the 20th century, an age-old quest for safe and effective oral contraception was realized. The woman who made that happen was Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), the founder of the American Birth Control League, the forerunner of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Chesler, 1...
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Since the oral contraceptive pill appeared on the market almost 60 years ago, it has been the preferred form of birth control for millions of women around the world. The pill is now so widely available, it's easy to forget that its development symbolised a revolutionary shift in family plan...
Early studies|Eugenics and treatment|Method of birth control|Recent developments Most people would sayvasectomycame in during the late 1950’s/1960’s as a male birth control method. This to an extent is true. However, the history of vasectomy is long and interesting. It’s also not been us...
Over the next several years, the doctors worked on formulating a birth control pill at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts. They tested their invention on 6,000 women in Puerto Rico and Haiti. The invention was then marketed in the United States in 1960 as Enovid...
In what ways have history and modern natural disasters impacted the current safety of raw water in Puerto Rico? As this journey through thehistory of raw watercomes to the present, and with a better understanding of the progression of water safety, a brief examination is made of some current...
A collaborative study between the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control, the Bolivian Ministry of Health, and priva... GV Hillyer,MSD Galanes,J, Rodriguez-Perez,... - 《American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene》 被引量: 282发表: 1992年 Natural...
Case-Control StudiesVaginal Birth after CesareanTrial of LaborUterine RuptureAdultPotshards discovered during excavation of bridge pilasters for a major expressway over the Rio Indio floodplain, a stream incised within the karsts of north-central Puerto Rico, required large-scale archaeological excavation...
day: overpopulation. Together, Rock and Pincus pioneered the development of the hormonal birth control pill through a series of clinical trials. After moving on from the laboratory tests, they ran a series of experiments on women in a Massachusetts asylum and poor neighborhoods in Puerto Rico. ...