Word: uhse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The object of a good birth-control program, says Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, is to see to it that those women who do not want to get pregnant, don't. Harvard's low-keyed decentralized program which offers the information without blitzing students with its presence, suits...
If there is one point that everyone involved with Harvard's birth control program agrees on, it's that there is no method available today that will satisfy all. "Contraception at present means a choice among a number of inadequate methods," says Wacker. The chief birth control couselor, Ann Bisbee...
The "facts," however, don't seem to be all that objective from the student point of view. Most women interviewed last week who have used UHS birth control facilities, said they detected a preference, conscious or otherwise on the part of UHS doctors to prescribe the pill over all other...
"It's true that a lot of people are switching away from the pill to the diaphragm," Wacker says. However, he adds, because of UHS's decentralized structure there is no sure way of telling how many women are making the change. He says he often sees a pattern where...
Bisbee explains the switch by saying, "Some women don't want to put chemicals in their bodies. They would rather trade a small chance of getting pregnant for no chance of illness" in later life. Dr. Paul Winig '62, a gynecologist in the UHS, who treats students, faculty and other...