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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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    Catholic Society of Midwives, 225
    cautery machines, 250
    CBS, 306
    cell divisions, 76
    Census Bureau, U.S., 195
    cervical caps, 3, 7, 38, 47
    cervical inflammation, 251
    cervical mucus, 205
    cervix, 38, 205, 251
    Cesarean sections, 113
    Chang, Isabelle, 88
    Chang, M. C., 7–11, 21–23, 88, 98, 99, 141, 144, 191, 216, 217, 252, 282, 312, 322
    Cheaper by the Dozen, 197
    Chemie Grünenthal, 263
    Chesler, Ellen, 36, 55
    Chicago, 169, 229–30, 279–80
    chickens, 119
    childbirth, 43, 204, 219, 251, 255
    children, 18–20, 43, 57, 59, 112, 197, 278
    “child spacing,” 57, 59, 112, 197, 278
    chlorpromazine, 177
    cholera, 61
    cholesterol, 137, 154–55
    Christianity, 6, 50, 242, 297, 307
    see also Catholic Church
    Christie, Agatha, 85
    CIT, 79
    civil rights movement, 319
    Clark, Septima, 220
    Clark University, 2–3, 15, 78–81, 131
    Claverack College, 32
    Clinical Research Bureau, 94
    clitoral hypertrophy, 290–91
    Cold War, 196
    Collier’s, 76–77, 259–60
    Colton, Frank, 139, 144, 191, 256
    comic books, 126
    Committee for the Suppression of Vice (YMCA), 43
    Committee on Maternal Health (AMA), 105
    communism, 18, 24, 186, 285
    Comstock, Anthony, 43–44, 276
    Comstock Law, 44, 276, 295
    Conant, James B., 72, 77
    concubines, 14
    condoms, 3, 7, 19, 38, 47, 49, 50, 112, 124, 167, 213, 275, 291–92
    Confidential, 125–26
    Congress, U.S., 44, 50, 285, 295
    Connecticut, 276, 318
    Connery, John, 271
    consent forms, 116
    Constitution, U.S., 94, 318
    contraception, see birth control
    Control of Conception (Dickinson), 56
    Control of Fertility, The (Pincus), 314
    Córdoba, Mexico, 135–36
    Cornell University, 66–68
    coronary heart disease, 209
    Coronet, 111
    cortisone, 26, 205
    Cowley, Malcolm, 15
    Crawford, Bruce, 153
    cresol, 37–38
    crime, 52–53, 165, 294–95
    criminal codes, 294–95
    Crozier, William J., 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 77
    Cushing, Richard, 111
    Customs, U.S., 56
    Dark Angel, The, 114
    Darwin, Charles, 48
    Davenport, Charles B., 148
    Dean, James, 222
    Debs, Eugene, 33–34
    Decameron, (Boccaccio), 188–89
    DeFelice, Pasquale, 283–92
    deformities, birth, 61, 157, 263, 289, 292–93, 295
    Demerol, 146, 203
    Democratic Party, 285
    Departamento de Salud, Puerto Rican, 169, 229, 239
    depression, 177–78
    “detail men,” 301–2
    developing countries, 164, 195–97
    Devon, 296
    diabetes, 123, 282, 292
    “Dialpak,” 316
    diaphragms, 19, 47, 51–52, 56, 94–95, 112, 113, 169, 212, 225, 251, 255, 275, 279, 291–92, 312
    Dickinson, Robert, 56
    Dickinson Research Memorial fund, 129
    Dietrich, Marlene, 186
    Dilantin, 262
    diphtheria, 282
    divorce, 56, 187, 318
    Dixon, Sue, 244–45, 247
    Dixon, Wes, 244, 245, 247
    Djerassi, Carl, 138–39, 144, 191, 232, 256
    Dodge, Mabel, 33–34
    dogs, 121
    domestic labor, 37
    Doubleday, 151
    “double effect,” 270–71
    douches, 38, 112
    Dower, John W., 210–11
    Draper, William H., 284–85, 295
    Draper Report, 284–85, 295
    Drysdale, George, 43
    Du Bois, W. E. B., 53, 54
    Dutton, Geoff, 236–37
    dysmenorrhea, 257
    Eberstadt, Mary, 309
    Edinburgh, University of, 21
    “Effect of Progesterin and Progesterone on Ovulation in the Rabbit, The” (Makepeace, Weinstein, and Friedman), 9
    eggs, 8, 10, 13, 75–76, 116, 118, 199, 204, 233
    see also ovulation
    Eggs of Mammals, The (Pincus), 75–76
    Egypt, 7
    Ehrenstein, Max, 138–39
    Einstein, Albert, 16, 78, 206
    Eisenhower, Dwight D., 145, 162, 195, 196, 295
    ejaculation, 10, 13, 37, 113
    electroshock therapy, 84, 178
    Elements of Social Science, The (Drysdale), 43
    Ellis, Henry Havelock, 41–43, 48, 69, 148–49
    Embracing Defeat (Dower), 210–11
    embryos, 10, 73–74
    endocrine glands, 122
    endocrinology, 93, 121–22
    endometrial biopsies, 112, 130, 159, 192–93, 273–74, 281–82
    endometriosis, 270
    endometrium, 205, 270
    Enovid, 242, 249–50, 252, 256–59, 260, 261, 262–63, 264, 269–70, 273–75, 277, 278, 282, 283, 284, 286, 287, 289, 290, 296, 297–99, 302, 304, 305, 311, 313, 317
    see also pill, birth
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