The Morning After : : A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States /

The Morning After : : A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States / / Heather Munro Prescott.

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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 his...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Prescott, Heather Munro,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.) :; 4 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Second Revolution in Birth Control
  • Chapter 2. Courageous Volunteers
  • Chapter 3. Feminist Health Activism and the Feds
  • Chapter 4. Balancing Safety and Choice
  • Chapter 5. Building Consensus
  • Chapter 6. Mainstreaming Emergency Contraception
  • Chapter 7. From Paternalism to Patient Empowerment
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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