Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and ye…
Is it really true? Has contraception liberated or oppressed women?
Traces the scientific origins of birth control pills and discusses how they contributed to the sexual revolution and how they have helped curb global over-population.
Traces the scientific origins of birth control pills and discusses how they contributed to the sexual revolution and how they have helped curb global over-population.
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. The Birth of the Pill revolves around four principal characters. Fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women, but neglected her own children in p…
We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. The Birth of the Pill revolves around four principal characters. Fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women, but neglected her own children in p…
We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. The Birth of the Pill revolves around four principal characters. Fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women, but neglected her own children in p…
This book presents 111 problem situations with regard to contraception in a brief and concise form, from A-Z. It is unique of its kind and indispensable for use in practice and for any practicing gynecologist.
Main description: This book presents 111 problem situations with regard to contraception in a brief and concise form, from A-Z. It is unique of its kind and indispensable for use in practice and for any practicing gynecologist.
This book presents 111 problem situations with regard to contraception in a brief and concise form, from A-Z. It is unique of its kind and indispensable for use in practice and for any practicing gynecologist.
Large-scale, field trials of emerging contraceptives occurred in Puerto Rico between 1956 and 1966. Most famously, the largest trials of the first Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved birth control pill, G.D. Searle & Company’s Enovid, occurred in Río Piedras and Humacao,…