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Sanger, Margaret, ed. (1879-1966) The Practice of Contraception: An International Symposium and Survey.
Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1931.
First edition, large quarto, illustrated; bound in publisher's green cloth, sold as a duplicate from the Kinsey collection, with duplicate stamp and inner front flap of dust jacket trimmed and mounted inside front board; 9 x 6 in.
The seventh annual symposium on contraception was held in Zurich in 1930, between the wars. Perhaps the most promising intrauterine device was presented by Dr. Ernest Graefenberg, the Graefenberg Ring, an antecedent of the modern IUD. Dr. Norman Haire and Dr. Helena Rosa Wright (1887-1982) were also working on an intrauterine device in London, and the two teams were rivals. Eventually, Helena Wright emerged as the trusted voice in the field. Her missionary work in China fueled her desire to provide women with the choice of family planning. She opened the Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control in North London in 1921. In the same year that she presented at the Zurich conference, she also persuaded the Church of England to allow married parishioners to use contraceptives with their blessing.
