Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contraceptive drugs, Injectable
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Report of the Public Board of Inquiry on Depo-Provera
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contraceptive drugs, Injectable
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Contraceptive Risk
Author: William GreenPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479891320
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses. Depo-Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history. Depo-Provera was tested on women since the mid-1960s without their informed consent until it was FDA-approved in 1992, but never FDA-approved as chemical castration for male sex offenders. Contraceptive Risk is William Green's landmark study of Depo-Provera. Based on a fascinating combination of archival materials and interviews, the book is framed as three interconnected stories told by Judith Weisz, who chaired the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry on Depo-Provera, a scientific court; by Anne MacMurdo who brought a products liability suit against Upjohn, the drug's manufacturer, for the deleterious side effects she suffered from the drug's use; and by Roger Gauntlett, an Upjohn heir who, when he was convicted of sexual assault, refused to take a dose of his family's own medicine as a probation condition. Together these three stories of Depo-Provera's convoluted fifty year odyssey call for a paradigm shift in pharmaceutical drug development. Contraceptive Risk is a thoroughly researched and engrossing approach to the scientific, political and institutional forces involved in health law and policy, as well as the multifaceted politics of measuring risk.
Recommendations and Reports
Author: Administrative Conference of the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Use of the Drug, Depo Provera, by the Indian Health Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contraceptive drugs, Injectable
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Policing the National Body
Author: Jael SillimanPublisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896086609
Category : Crime and race
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This anthology explores the ways in which women of color are monitored, criminalized and regulated.
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for 1981
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related ProgramsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Bodies of Knowledge
Author: Wendy KlinePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226443078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In Bodies of Knowledge, Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women’s liberation. As Kline shows, the struggle to attain this knowledge unified women but also divided them—according to race, class, sexuality, or level of professionalization. Each of the five chapters of Bodies of Knowledge examines a distinct moment or setting of the women’s movement in order to give life to the ideas, expectations, and pitfalls encountered by the advocates of women’s health: the making of Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973); the conflicts surrounding the training and practice of women’s pelvic exams; the emergence of abortion as a feminist issue; the battles over contraceptive regulation at the 1983 Depo-Provera FDA hearings; and the rise of the profession of midwifery. Including an epilogue that considers the experiences of the daughters of 1970s feminists, Bodies of Knowledge is an important contribution to the study of the bodies—that marked the lives—of feminism’s second wave.
Contraceptive Risk
Author: William GreenPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479836982
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The story of Depo-Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses. Depo-Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history. Depo-Provera was tested on women since the mid-1960s without their informed consent until it was FDA-approved in 1992, but never FDA-approved as chemical castration for male sex offenders. Contraceptive Risk is William Green's landmark study of Depo-Provera. Based on a fascinating combination of archival materials and interviews, the book is framed as three interconnected stories told by Judith Weisz, who chaired the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry on Depo-Provera, a scientific court; by Anne MacMurdo who brought a products liability suit against Upjohn, the drug's manufacturer, for the deleterious side effects she suffered from the drug's use; and by Roger Gauntlett, an Upjohn heir who, when he was convicted of sexual assault, refused to take a dose of his family's own medicine as a probation condition. Together these three stories of Depo-Provera's convoluted fifty year odyssey call for a paradigm shift in pharmaceutical drug development. Contraceptive Risk is a thoroughly researched and engrossing approach to the scientific, political and institutional forces involved in health law and policy, as well as the multifaceted politics of measuring risk.
Report to Congress
Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Conquest
Author: Andrea SmithPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822374811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith adroitly expands our conception of violence to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices by whites and other non-Natives; environmental racism; and population control. Smith deftly connects these and other examples of historical and contemporary colonialism to the high rates of violence against Native American women—the most likely to suffer from poverty-related illness and to survive rape and partner abuse. Smith also outlines radical and innovative strategies for eliminating gendered violence.