1950's Science and Technology | The Control of Fertility

Monograph, Tables

By: Gregory Pincus

Date: 1965

Source: Pincus, Gregory. The Control of Fertility. New York: Academic Press, 1965, 226–227.

About the Author: Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967) was born in Woodbine, New Jersey, and received a Sc.D. from Harvard University in 1927. He taught at Harvard, Clark University, Tufts University Medical School, and Boston University. In 1944 he and a colleague founded the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. Pincus collaborated with Harvard gynecologist John Rock in developing the oral contraceptive Enovid.

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Method	Average pregnancies per 100 woman years
No contraception	115
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