Abstract
THE enthusiastic claims of the contraceptive literature of a few years ago have now given way to a general impression that there is no satisfactory method of preventing pregnancy. This is confirmed by an investigation undertaken by Mrs. L. S. Florence at the Cambridge Birth Control Clinic, and now published under the title of “Birth Control on Trial”. Her conclusion that such methods as can be recommended are too complicated and unreliable is fully justified. Every doctor sees occasional patients whom he must warn to avoid pregnancy, and to such warning there ought to be added some instruction concerning methods. There is obviously a demand for research into this subject, which can only be undertaken by the medical profession. The book is not intended to hold a brief for the ethics of birth control, but some of the case-histories it contains are sufficiently tragic to shake the convictions of the most confirmed opponent of contraception.
Birth Control on Trial.
Lella Secor
Florence
. Pp. 160. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1930.) 5s. net.
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Birth Control on Trial . Nature 127, 88 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127088c0
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