GUTTMACHER, ALAN F.

GUTTMACHER, ALAN F.
GUTTMACHER, ALAN F. (1898–1974), U.S. professor of obstetrics and proponent of world population control. Born and educated in Baltimore, Maryland, he served as clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and director of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital until 1962 when he became president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and in 1964 chairman of the medical committee of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (1964–68). Guttmacher lectured and wrote extensively on the subject of world population control. His later books on the subject include Babies by Choice or by Chance (1959); Pregnancy and Birth (1962); Planning your Family (1965); and Birth Control and Love (1969). (Fred Rosner)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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