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Edris Rice-Wray Oral History, 1978-1987Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2005
Biographical NoteBirth control advocate; Physician. Edris Rice-Wray Carson, M.D. attended Cornell University and was a public health physician, primarily in Central America, Mexico. She founded Mexico's first family planning clinic, in Mexico City and was medical director of the Puerto Rico Family Planning Association. She headed the first large scale clinical trials of the first birth control pill developed by Gregory Pincus and John Rock. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionTwo oral histories conducted by James Reed and Ellen Chesler in 1987 (audio recording and draft transcript, 69 pages). Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |