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- catalog abstract "Consists of Rock’s research records from his tenure as director of the Fertility and Endocrine Clinic at the Free Hospital for Women in Brookline, Mass., including research notebooks, correspondence, data, memoranda, research files, lantern slides, and patient records, including note cards, laboratory microscope slides, and photographs produced from his clinical activities. The collection also includes Rock's collaborative writings, reproductive health research notes, and correspondence with individuals involved in birth control research, including Katharine McCormick, and colleagues Gregory Pincus, Min-Chueh Chang, Celso-Ramon Garcia, Edris Rice-Wray regarding their work on the development of the birth control pill. Additional writings, lecture notes, film reels, and audio recordings produced from his reproductive health research address such topics as the development of the birth control pill, in vitro fertilization, sperm freezing for preservation, corpus luteum, and human embryo development. The collection also contains lantern slides, notes, and laboratory data resulting from Rock's collaboration with Arthur Hertig on in vitro fertilization and human embryo development research funded by the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Writings, notes, lantern slides, laboratory data and notebooks record Rock and labortory assistant Miriam Menkin's research on in-vitro fertilization, the development of oral contraceptives, and other aspects of human reproduction. Included are photographs of in vitro fertilization and charts of data on embryos. Also contains Rock's lecture notes from his classes taught at Harvard Medical School, Rock's personal correspondence, and photographs of Rock.".
- catalog contributor b755347.
- catalog contributor b755348.
- catalog contributor b755349.
- catalog contributor b755350.
- catalog contributor b755351.
- catalog contributor b755352.
- catalog contributor b755353.
- catalog contributor b755354.
- catalog date "1918".
- catalog description "Also contains Rock's lecture notes from his classes taught at Harvard Medical School, Rock's personal correspondence, and photographs of Rock.".
- catalog description "Consists of Rock’s research records from his tenure as director of the Fertility and Endocrine Clinic at the Free Hospital for Women in Brookline, Mass., including research notebooks, correspondence, data, memoranda, research files, lantern slides, and patient records, including note cards, laboratory microscope slides, and photographs produced from his clinical activities. The collection also includes Rock's collaborative writings, reproductive health research notes, and correspondence with individuals involved in birth control research, including Katharine McCormick, and colleagues Gregory Pincus, Min-Chueh Chang, Celso-Ramon Garcia, Edris Rice-Wray regarding their work on the development of the birth control pill. Additional writings, lecture notes, film reels, and audio recordings produced from his reproductive health research address such topics as the development of the birth control pill, in vitro fertilization, sperm freezing for preservation, corpus luteum, and human embryo development. The collection also contains lantern slides, notes, and laboratory data resulting from Rock's collaboration with Arthur Hertig on in vitro fertilization and human embryo development research funded by the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Writings, notes, lantern slides, laboratory data and notebooks record Rock and labortory assistant Miriam Menkin's research on in-vitro fertilization, the development of oral contraceptives, and other aspects of human reproduction. Included are photographs of in vitro fertilization and charts of data on embryos.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available (643.1 kb) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00064".
- catalog description "John C. Rock personal and professional papers, 1921-1985. H MS c161. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.".
- catalog description "John Charles Rock (1890-1984), was the founder of the Rock Reproductive Study Center at the Free Hospital for Women in Brookline, Mass., and Clinical Professor of Gynecology at Harvard Medical School. Rock collaborated with colleague Gregory Pincus and Pincus's assistant Min-Chueh Chang, during the 1950s in the clinical trials and development of oral contraceptives, commonly known as the birth control pill. Rock is also credited with colleague Arthur Hertig and laboratory assistant Miriam F. Menkin for completing the earliest human in vitro fertilization experiments in the United States in 1944. As a fertility specialist, gynecologist, and medical educator, Rock, a Roman Catholic, gained notoriety for advocating the usage of birth control despite his religious beliefs. His research areas included fertility, early stages of contraception, human embryo development,in vitro fertilization, the freezing and preservation of sperm cells, and clinical disorders of human reproductive physiology.".
- catalog description "The Gregory Pincus Papers, 1920-1969 (bulk 1950-1967), can be found at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records, 1915-1974, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records, 1921-1981, can be found at Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection.".
- catalog extent "43.2 40 2 2 3 1 11".
- catalog issued "1918".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Artificial insemination.".
- catalog subject "Birth control.".
- catalog subject "Carnegie Institution of Washington.".
- catalog subject "Conception.".
- catalog subject "Contraception Agents, Female.".
- catalog subject "Contraception Religious aspects.".
- catalog subject "Contraception.".
- catalog subject "Contraceptive Devices.".
- catalog subject "Corpus luteum.".
- catalog subject "Estrogen.".
- catalog subject "Estrogens.".
- catalog subject "Fertility, Human.".
- catalog subject "Fertilization in Vitro.".
- catalog subject "Fertilization in vitro.".
- catalog subject "Free Hospital for Women.".
- catalog subject "Frozen semen.".
- catalog subject "G.D. Searle & Co.".
- catalog subject "Gynecology.".
- catalog subject "Harvard Medical School Study and teaching.".
- catalog subject "Human embryo.".
- catalog subject "Menstruation disorders.".
- catalog subject "Oral contraceptives.".
- catalog subject "Ovulation.".
- catalog subject "Ovum.".
- catalog subject "Planned Parenthood Federation of America.".
- catalog subject "Progesterone.".
- catalog subject "Reproduction.".
- catalog subject "Rice-Wray, Edris.".
- catalog subject "Rock Reproductive Study Center.".
- catalog subject "Rock, John Charles, 1890-1984.".
- catalog subject "Semen Preservation.".
- catalog subject "Tuboplasty.".
- catalog subject "Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.".
- catalog title "Personal and Professional Papers, 1921-1985.".
- catalog type "collection".