[Prcenter] Fwd: Carranza talk announcement, April 16 (fwd)

[Liz Ozselcuk]

please pardon my duplication:

> Maria Carranza, MD/PhD
> Researcher at INCIENSA and the University of Costa Rica
> Agents of change at Turrialba: highlights for a history of the Costa Rican
> family planning program
> 
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 16, 4-5:30pm
> CLAS (Center for Latin American Studies) CONFERENCE ROOM, 2334 BOWDITCH
> STREET, BERKELEY
> 
> Costa Rica has been the source of demographic attention for at least two
> main reasons: its startling rate of population growth, which peaked at
> 3.8% during 1955 and 1960, and which was considered one of the highest in
> the world, and the astounding decline in the total fertility rate, from
> 7.3 to 3.7 children, that took place between 1960 and 1975. The sharp
> reduction in the fertility rate has been attributed in significant measure
> to the use of modern contraceptive methods provided by state health
> institutions (1968 onwards).  This work traces the origins of the Costa
> Rican Family Planning Program to Turrialba, a rural town 50 kilometers
> away from the capital city which was, since the late 40s, the experimental
> laboratory of the IICA (Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences).
> In this town, forest engineers concerned with the negative effects of
> population growth on the environment set the pillars of what would later
> become the Costa Rican Family Planning Program.  This talk argues that
> while the provision of contraception in  Costa Rica quickly became a
> matter of health and health professionals, it was forest engineers,
> worried not about health but about the environment, who started this
> provision.  The talk examines how a former Berkeley student, a Colombian
> Forest Engineer and a young medical doctor captivated with IUDs, among
> others, came together and organized the first Costa Rican experience with
> mass contraception.
> 
> Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of
> Anthropology, the Science, Technology, and Society Center, the Gender and
> Women's Studies Department, the Berkeley Population Center, and the
> Department of Anthropology and History of Social Medicine (UCSF).

__________________________________
William H. Dow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Economics
University of California, Berkeley
School of Public Health
Division of Health Policy and Management
243 University Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
510-643-5439 (phone)
510-643-6981 (fax)
wdow at berkeley.edu