Statistics from the 1978 survey of the National Inventory of Family Planning Services are presented on demographic and institutional characteristics of service sites that provide medical and nonmedical family plannlng services. Data are given on the physical location of the service sites, their operating responsibility, the number of patients served, medical and ancillary services provided, and...

Stalled fertility declines have been identified in several regions across the developing world, but the current conceptualization of a stalled fertility decline is poorly theorized and does not lend itself to objective measurement. We propose a more rigorous and statistically testable definition of stalled fertility decline that can be applied to time-series data. We then illustrate the utility...

The sesquicentennial of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov’s birth in September 1999 is being celebrated in Russia by a special issue of the Russian Journal of Physiology (the former I. M. Sechenov Physiological Journal, founded by Pavlov in 1917). The following article and the address by Skinner that it introduces are scheduled to appear in Russian translation in that special issue. Skinner’s ‘‘Some Respon...

The Clinica Para Madres (Mother?s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control [3] clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control [3] activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception [4]. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception [4] was illegal under the...