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The First Clinics

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Marie Stopes (1880–1958) shattered the great public silence on birth control by her spectacular activities. A remarkable woman of intellect, energy and intense ambition, she had become, by 1905, the youngest Doctor of Science in England; the first woman to be appointed a lecturer on the scientific staff of Manchester University; and already awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Munich (1904).1 As her palaeobotanical researches began to yield important results, she became well-known in her own professional field.

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Leathard, A. (1980). The First Clinics. In: The Fight for Family Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04451-1_2

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