HMED 3075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Margaret Sanger, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Population Control
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Lecture: the history of birth control after world war ii. Reading: andrea tone, the pill in practice. Nation: who"s come a long way, baby, time, august 31, 1970. Research and development: 1940s, female sex hormones- progesterone and estrogen were isolated with chemical structure identified and role in reproductive cycle understood, 1951, creation of synthetic progesterone-taken orally. Carl djerassi (worked for mexican company syntex) and frank colton (worked for us company gd searle: 1951, sanger recruited sex physiologist, gregory pincus to develop the pill. Funded slightly by american planned parenthood federation and largely by. Katherine mccormick: 1952, pincus recruited ob/gyn john rock to test contraceptives in humans. Testing the pill: 1954-1955, john rock administered progesterone to 50 women at the free hospital for women and nurse volunteers at worcester state hospital. 7 became pregnant after withdrawn from pill=> proved temporary: 15 female psychiatric patients at worcester state hospital, first long term trial in puerto rico.
