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Contraceptive Risk - The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine (Paperback)
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Contraceptive Risk - The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine (Paperback)
Series: Biopolitics
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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.
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