Doctoral Dissertation Research: From the Laboratory to Society: The Development of Natural Family Planning

这篇论文通过展示科学、宗教、公共管理和其他群体在自然节育的发展和传播中的相互作用，为避孕的历史做出了贡献。该项目将特别审查现行妇女评价时间概念的确立过程，并将其应用于制定节育方法，特别是节律方法。这项研究将首次追踪从欧洲、日本和美国实验室所做的工作到其社会影响的过程的步骤。它将考虑到参与其中的各种代理人(研究人员、医生、政府和宗教当局)的相互作用，展示他们不同的价值观(专业、道德、宗教和意识形态)是如何相互作用的。此外，这项研究考虑了宗教差异，因为它们反映在国家差异中，罗马天主教主导的国家和政教分离在修辞上很重要，但没有将政治描述为实践。

The dissertation makes a contribution to the history of contraception by showing the interplay of scientific, religious, public administrative, and other groups in the development and dissemination of natural birth control.. The project will examine in particular the process whereby the current notion of the woman's time of evaluation was established and applied to the development of birth control methods, especially rhythm methods. This study will, for the first time, trace the steps of the process that led from work done in European, Japanese, and American laboratories to its social impact. It will take into account the interplay of the various agents involved (researchers, medical practitioners, government, and religious authorities), showing how their different values (professional, moral, religious, and ideological) have interacted. Further, the research takes up religious differences as they are reflected in national differences, between a Roman Catholic dominated state and one where separation of church and state is rhetorically important but does not describe politics as practiced.