Female Gynecologists and Their Birth Control Clinics: Eugenics in Practice in 1920s-1930s China.

This article traces the efforts of pioneer gynecologists in giving contraceptive advice at their birth control clinics, which they framed as a humanitarian effort to ease the reproductive burden of working-class women. It also examines their connections with Sanger's international birth control movement, and their advocacy of contraception as practitioners, translators, and educators. The author argues that these Chinese female gynecologists not only borrowed, but adapted Western scientific knowledge to Chinese social conditions through their writings and translations and in their clinical work. PMID: 29661002 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medical History - Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tags: Can Bull Med Hist Source Type: research