Contraception

A Concise History

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  • The
  • development,
  • manufacturing,
  • and
  • use
  • of
  • contraceptive
  • methods
  • from
  • the
  • late
  • nineteenth
  • century
  • to
  • the
  • present,
  • viewed
  • from
  • the
  • perspective
  • of
  • reproductive
  • justice.The
  • beginning
  • of
  • the
  • modern
  • contraceptive
  • era
  • began
  • in
  • 1882,
  • when
  • Dr.
  • Aletta
  • Jacobs
  • opened
  • the
  • first
  • birth
  • control
  • clinic
  • in
  • Amsterdam.
  • The
  • founding
  • of
  • this
  • facility,
  • and
  • the
  • clinical
  • provision
  • of
  • contraception
  • that
  • it
  • enabled,
  • marked
  • the
  • moment
  • when
  • physicians
  • started
  • to
  • take
  • the
  • prevention
  • of
  • pregnancy
  • seriously
  • as
  • a
  • medical
  • concern.
  • In
  • this
  • volume
  • in
  • the
  • MIT
  • Press
  • Essential
  • Knowledge
  • series,
  • Donna
  • Drucker
  • traces
  • the
  • history
  • of
  • modern
  • contraception,
  • outlining
  • the
  • development,
  • manufacturing,
  • and
  • use
  • of
  • contraceptive
  • methods
  • from
  • the
  • opening
  • of
  • Dr.
  • Jacobs's
  • clinic
  • to
  • the
  • present.
  • Drucker
  • approaches
  • the
  • subject
  • from
  • the
  • perspective
  • of
  • reproductive
  • justice:
  • the
  • right
  • to
  • have
  • a
  • child,
  • the
  • right
  • not
  • to
  • have
  • a
  • child,
  • and
  • the
  • right
  • to
  • parent
  • children
  • safely
  • and
  • healthily.Drucker
  • describes
  • contraceptive
  • methods
  • available
  • before
  • the
  • pill,
  • including
  • the
  • diaphragm
  • (dispensed
  • at
  • the
  • Jacobs
  • clinic)
  • and
  • condom,
  • spermicidal
  • jellies,
  • and
  • periodic
  • abstinences.
  • She
  • looks
  • at
  • the
  • development
  • and
  • dissemination
  • of
  • the
  • pill
  • and
  • its
  • chemical
  • descendants;
  • describes
  • technological
  • developments
  • in
  • such
  • non-hormonal
  • contraceptives
  • as
  • the
  • cervical
  • cap
  • and
  • timing
  • methods
  • (including
  • the
  • “rhythm
  • method”
  • favored
  • by
  • the
  • Roman
  • Catholic
  • church);
  • and
  • explains
  • the
  • concept
  • of
  • reproductive
  • justice.
  • Finally,
  • Drucker
  • considers
  • the
  • future
  • of
  • contraception—the
  • adaptations
  • of
  • existing
  • methods,
  • new
  • forms
  • of
  • distribution,
  • and
  • ongoing
  • efforts
  • needed
  • to
  • support
  • contraceptive
  • access worldwide.
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