2021 Annual Percy Skuy Lecture

Dittrick Medical History Center

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• Date Thursday, April 01, 2021
• Time 1:00PM - 2:00PM

The Dittrick Medical History Center, affiliated with Case Western Reserve University, is dedicated to researching the history of medicine through a rich collection of rare books, artifacts, archives, and images. Originally part of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, established in... more

Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement

Presented by Dr. Lauren Macivor Thompson

This talk will focus on the wide range of actors involved in the early birth control movement and their motivations. Physicians, scientists, women's rights activists, and Progressive reformers were often vocal supporters for legalizing contraception, but a fair number in each of those groups also opposed the movement for both moral reasons and reasons of professional power consolidation. Together, medicine, the science of eugenics, and birth control converged in the 1930s to shape legalization, access, and acceptance by the American public in ways that still have profound consequences today.

Registration required
For more information and to register see: https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upcoming-events/