Seminar on "Modern Contraceptive Techniques" held by the Planned Parenthood Association of Alameda County at Kaiser Center in Oakland on April 10, 1969. Dr. W. Dieter Bergman introduces the seminar and speaker Dr. Alan Guttmacher. Dr. Donald H. Minkler introduces the next several speakers, each speaking on a specific contraceptive technique. First is Dr. Harry Rudell, associate director of the Population Council in New York speaks on the pill and has been published in the Ladies Home Journal. The next speaker is Dr. Jerome S. Harris, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at John Hopkins and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Sinai Hospital in Maryland. Harris discusses IUDs. Then, Dr. H. Curtis Wood, Jr., medical consultant to the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, speaking on sterilization. Then a Q&A for the last 25 minutes.
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