New Article Published in the American Journal of Public Health

My new article on Dr. Hannah Mayer Stone’s work to create medical contraceptive care in the early-to-mid-twentieth century is out in the American Journal of Public Health!

The complete article is available to read here.

Jensen, R. E. (2023). The First Publication on Contraception in a US Medical Journal, 1928: Hannah Mayer Stone’s Case for Contraceptive Care Before the Pill. American Journal of Public Health, 113(4): 390-396. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307215

This photograph of Dr. Hannah M. Stone was taken between 1930 and 1940. Property of the Harvard Medical Library collection, Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Printed with permission.