The Conception of Contraception: The Influence of Public Health on the Clinical Birth Control Movement 公开
Patton, Anne Beirne (2011)
Published
Abstract
Abstract
The Conception of Contraception: The Influence of Public Health on
the Clinical Birth Control
Movement
By Anne Patton
In 1914, Margaret Sanger coined the term birth control. Two years
later, she opened the first birth control clinic in America. The
concept of American womanhood would never be the same. Margaret
Sanger is remembered as a radical and a political activist, but
historians have often overlooked her role as a public health
activist. Sanger was a nurse. In 1912, she worked for Lillian
Wald's Henry Street settlement house in New York City's Lower East
Side. During this time, Sanger became acquainted with the
inadequacies of healthcare in New York and the progressive
reformers who strove to improve the health of the city. Also during
this time, Sanger witnessed large families crowded into small
tenements and mothers who were literally killing themselves in
order to prevent another pregnancy. Sanger decided that access to
contraception could improve the lives of New York families. She
began publishing a monthly magazine and printed a manual on
contraception. In 1915, Sanger traveled to Holland and visited
Dutch birth control clinics. She returned to America resolved to
open the first contraception clinic outside of the Netherlands. On
October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger opened a birth control clinic in
Brownsville, Brooklyn. The clinic remained open for ten days. In
that time, Sanger and her coworkers advised nearly 500 women. When
examining the operations of Sanger's clinic, one can see the
influence of other public health institutions. Margaret Sanger
championed birth control to improve the health of individual women.
Although Margaret Sanger's fight for contraception was both
political and social, the roots of her movement were scientific.
The first years of her career in New York illustrate that,
fundamentally, Margaret Sanger was a public health reformer.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Public Health in New York 4
Chapter 2: A Rebel's Education 18
Chapter 3: The Brownsville Clinic 34
Chapter 4: Venereal Disease and Birth Control 44
Conclusion 53
About this Honors Thesis
School | |
---|---|
Department | |
Degree | |
Submission | |
Language |
|
Research Field | |
关键词 | |
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor | |
Committee Members |
Primary PDF
Thumbnail | Title | Date Uploaded | Actions |
---|---|---|---|
|
The Conception of Contraception: The Influence of Public Health on the Clinical Birth Control Movement () | 2018-08-28 11:21:40 -0400 |
|
Supplemental Files
Thumbnail | Title | Date Uploaded | Actions |
---|