PHSC 401 Lecture 17: Birth Control

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Public Health Science
• Course: PHSC 401
• Professor: Boyle

Document Summary

Phsc401--rights re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)s i: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s health & birth co(cid:374)trol. Recap: public health measures shaped by naturalism, religion/moral values, public health strategies, system of plague measures, vaccination, sanitary movement. Context: ancient and modern bc methods: withdrawal, rhythm, douching, vaginal suppositories, condoms, 19th century and 20th century, rubber condoms (stds, diaphragms, abortion practiced by cultures around the world for millennia. Judge modified law to allow prescription of birth control to patients. 1920-1960s: changing roles: more education for women, women enter the workforce, divorces, sexual activity outside marriage. Birth control movement and black women: many civil rights activists saw expansion of contraception into communities of color as attempt at racial genocide, some women were involuntaril(cid:455) sterilized i(cid:374) the south i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1009)(cid:1004)"s a(cid:374)d (cid:1010)(cid:1004)"s (fa(cid:374)(cid:374)ie lou. Hamer: ma(cid:374)(cid:455) i(cid:374) a(cid:374)ger"s (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)ere euge(cid:374)i(cid:272)ists (cid:449)ho (cid:449)a(cid:374)ted to li(cid:373)it (cid:271)la(cid:272)k (cid:271)irths or (cid:271)irths of poor whites. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s mo(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)s: activism in the late 1960s, black power, growing anti-vietnam war movements.