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John Rock

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Noun1.John Rock - United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)


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John Rock, co-developed the female birth control pill in 1954 at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology on Maple Street in Shrewsbury.
The Fertility Doctor John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution WRITTEN By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner PUBLISHED BY Hopkins Fulfillment Service, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-80180001-7, Hardcover, pp.
The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 374 PP) 978-8018-9001-7, $29.
 
 
 
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