| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the odyssey of Depo-Provera -- The Grady Hospital study : the corruption of contraceptive research -- The twenty-five-year FDA approval controversy : cancer and the politics of acceptable risk -- Contraceptive chaos : unapproved use and Upjohn v. MacMurdo -- Marketing approval and litigation : osteoporosis and the realities of medical risk -- Chemical castration : the John Hopkins Clinic and People v. Gauntlett -- Conclusions : contraceptive drug risk failure, human dignity, and a duty to act. |
| Summary |
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 the author'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.--description from back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Contraception.
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Contraception. |
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Women -- Health risk assessment.
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Women -- Health risk assessment. |
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Women. |
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Contraceptives -- Safety measures.
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Contraceptives. |
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Industrial safety. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Green, William, 1950- Contraceptive risk. New York : New York University, [2017] 9781479876990 (DLC) 2017003468 (OCoLC)961160724 |
| ISBN |
9781479825929 (electronic book) |
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1479825921 (electronic book) |
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9781479876990 |
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1479876992 |
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9781479836987 |
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1479836982 |
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