The Morning After - A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	Heather Munro Prescott
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-5163-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-5163-3
Barcode:	9780813551630

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