Contraceptive Risk: The Fda, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine
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 thre…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4798-3698-7
- EAN: 9781479836987
- Produktnummer: 21425692
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.3 cm 499 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 12
- Gewicht: 499
Über den Autor
William Green is Professor of Government at Morehead State University in Kentucky, where he teaches constitutional law and comparative politics. His research and publications explore constitutional and civil liberties issues and the political and legal dimensions of economic development, labor relations, language rights, and pharmaceutical drug policies.
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