Historical birth control lecture shines spotlight on Cleveland’s little-known contraception museum
The Plain Dealer: The Dittrick Museum of Medical History features the world’s largest collection of contraceptive devices. The collection—more specifically thermometers that monitor a woman’s ovulation—was the subject of scholar Deanna Day’s dissertation, “98.6: Fevers, Fertility, and the Patient Labor of American Medicine,” which she will present tonight at Ford Auditorium.
