The Morning After : A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States Hardback
by Heather Munro Prescott
Part of the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series
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Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-million industry in the United States and throughout the Western world.
But emergency contraception is nothing new. It has a long and often contentious history as the subject of clashes not only between medical researchers and religious groups, but also between different factions of feminist health advocates. The Morning After tells the story of emergency contraception in America from the 1960s to the present day and, more importantly, it tells the story of the women who have used it.
Side-stepping simplistic readings of these women as either radical feminist trailblazers or guinea pigs for the pharmaceutical industry, medical historian Heather Munro Prescott offers a portrait of how ordinary women participated in the development and popularization of emergency contraception, bringing a groundbreaking technology into the mainstream with the potential to alter radically reproductive health practices.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:180 pages, 4 illustrations
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:19/09/2011
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- ISBN:9780813551623
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:180 pages, 4 illustrations
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:19/09/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813551623