226
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