Meeting Minutes of the Committee on Human Reproduction
of the National Research Council
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Human Reproduction
Birth control
Minutes (administrative records)
After World War II, Dickinson’s National Committee on Maternal Health and Planned Parenthood (the successor to Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League) asked the National Research Council to oversee a program of research in reproductive science and medicine. Rock was a founding member of the resulting Committee on Human Reproduction and wrote its research agenda. In 1948, the committee planned to support 10 research projects, including projects headed by Gregory Pincus, Rock, and Clarence J. Gamble. Rock would later head the first trial of progesterone and estrogen on a small group of women at the Free Hospital of women.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Human Reproduction
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Program for Future Research on Birth Control
National Committee on Maternal Health
Birth control
Programs (documents)
National Committee on Maternal Health
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Survey of Medical Schools
National Committee on Maternal Health
Contraception
Questionnaires
Sterilization
Contraception, sterilization, sterility, and premarital hygiene were taught in less than half of American medical schools. The National Committee on Maternal Health surveyed medical schools to determine the state of human reproduction education in 1929 and 1933. Of the 77 schools surveyed, 34 taught contraception and 41 lectured on sterilization.
National Committee on Maternal Health
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Are Present Birth Control Methods Satisfactory?
Dickinson, Robert Latou, 1861-1950
Birth control
National Committee on Maternal Health
Speeches
Reproduction
Another barrier, as Dickinson argued in a lecture he prepared for Margaret Sanger’s first world congress on birth control in 1934, was the lack of scientific knowledge of human reproduction.
Dickinson, Robert Latou, 1861-1950
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Agencies Active in Study of Human Sex Problems
Dickinson, Robert Latou, 1861-1950
Birth control
National Committee on Maternal Health
Charts (graphic documents)
In 1929, Robert Latou Dickinson, MD visualized the relationships among organizations in this chart, created for the Committee on Maternal Health (CMH), an organization he established as a medical counterpart to Sanger’s Birth Control League.
Dickinson, Robert Latou, 1861-1950
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