On the pill : a social history of oral contraceptives, 1950-1970
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On the pill : a social history of oral contraceptives, 1950-1970
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-173) and index
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ISBN 9780801858765
内容説明
The commercial availability of the birth control pill in the early 1960s permitted women far greater reproductive choice, created a new set of ethical and religious questions, encouraged feminism, changed the dynamics of women's health care and altered gender relations. In this exploration of the pill's cultural and medical history, the author re-examines the scientific and ideological forces that led to its development, the parts women played in debates over its application, and the role of the media, medical profession and pharmaceutical industry in deciding issues of its safety and meaning. Watkins' study seeks to help us understand the contraceptive revolution and to appreciate the misinterpretations that surround it. The author argues, for example, that the pill did not instigate the sexual revolution and she describes how the media's blurred coverage of sexual behaviour and contraception produced the enduring, but inaccurate image of the pill as the symbol of sexual revolt. She demonstrates that the women who requested oral contraceptives from their physicians in the 1960s became more active participants in their own medical care.
Drawing on traditional sources as well as interviews, television news recordings, professional journals, popular magazines and newspapers, the text provides a history of one of the 20th century's most significant medical and cultural developments.
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: pbk ISBN 9780801868214
内容説明
"In 1968, a popular writer ranked the pill's importance with the discovery of fire and the developments of tool-making, hunting, agriculture, urbanism, scientific medicine, and nuclear energy. Twenty-five years later, the leading British weekly, the Economist, listed the pill as one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The image of the oral contraceptive as revolutionary persists in popular culture, yet the nature of the changes it supposedly brought about has not been fully investigated. After more than thirty-five years on the market, the role of the pill is due for a thorough examination."-from the Introduction In this fresh look at the pill's cultural and medical history, Elizabeth Siegel Watkins re-examines the scientific and ideological forces that led to its development, the part women played in debates over its application, and the role of the media, medical profession, and pharmaceutical industry in deciding issues of its safety and meaning. Her study helps us not only to understand the contraceptive revolution as such but also to appreciate the misinterpretations that surround it.
目次
Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Genesis of the Pill Chapter 2: Physicians, Patients, and the New Oral Contraceptives Chapter 3: Sex, Population, and the Pill Chapter 4: Debating the Safety of the Pill Chapter 5: Oral Contraceptives and Informed Consent Chapter 6: Conclusion Notes Bibliographical Essay Index
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