DR. CARL D. TAYLOR was born in the Himalayas. His parents were medical missionaries, and as a boy he accompanied them on their extended tours of the Indian villages each year. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and presently director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Taylor has repeatedly revisited the health centers in his native land.
DR. CARL E. TAYLOR was born in the Himalayas and has spent half of his career in their shadow. His parents are medical missionaries, and as a boy he accompanied them on their extended tours of the Indian villages each year. The Harvard Medical School, war experiences in tropical medicine, specialization in internal medicine in Canada, and study at the Harvard School of Public Health prepared Dr. Taylor for his return to the Punjab in 1953 to teach Public Health at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana.
The son of medical missionaries, who accompanied his parents on their rounds of the Indian villages, DR. CARL E. TAYLOR has been thinking deeply about India and medicine during his graduate work at the Harvard School of Public Health. He went out to India as a medical missionary in 1947 and will return there next winter to teach Public Health at the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana. The following article, which won first prize in the Essay Contest sponsored by the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, evaluates the cultural factors that determine the reaction of Indians to birth control.
Competition between the ancient medical lore of India and Western medicine is here described by DR. CARL E. TAYLOR,who was born in the Himalayas and has spent half of his career in their shadow. His parents are medical missionaries, and as a boy he accompanied them on their extended tours of the Indian viliages each year. The Harvard Medical School, war experiences in tropical medicine, and specialization in internal medicine in Canada prepared Dr. Taylor for his return to India as a medical missionary for the Presbyterian Board in 1917. He is now at the Harvard School of Public Health, and next year will return to North India to teach Public Health at the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana.