Reminiscences of Mary Steichen Calderone : oral history, 1974.

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Reminiscences of Mary Steichen Calderone : oral history, 1974.

Family background, education, medical training, marriage, children; Medical Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1953-64; Director, 1964-75, Chairman, 1975- Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS); birth control methods; Abortion Conference, 1958; impressions of Martha May Eliot, Alan Guttmacher, John Rock.

Transcript: 47 leaves.

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