The Diaphragm in the City: Contraceptive Research at the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, 1925–1939 (2021)
Drucker, Donna J. (Author)
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 26
Issue: 2
Pages: 11-32
Edition Details: Special Issue: The Body and Technology
Language: English
This article traces the research and publications of the physician and birth control advocate Dr. Hannah Stone (1893–1941). Stone used her position at the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (later the Margaret Sanger Clinical Research Bureau) in New York City from 1925 to 1939 to research different brands and sizes of diaphragms, test spermicide recipes, present and publish research in academic settings, and field requests from independent researchers asking to test their contraceptives on the clinic’s patients. She was also a key participant in a U.S. Court of Appeals case that dismantled the last vestiges of the 1873 Comstock Act. Her research, publications, and advocacy emphasized the range of women’s body types and the challenges of developing barrier contraceptives that would work for them all. She established methods of data collection and representation that would become standard in contraceptive research through the mid-twentieth century.
...MoreArticle Donna J. Drucker (2021) Introduction: The Body and Technology. Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 8-10).
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