Contraceptive Risk : : The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine / / William Green.
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. De...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Biopolitics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Note to the reader
- Introduction. The odyssey of depo- provera
- 1. The Grady hospital study: the corruption of contraceptive research
- 2. The twenty- five-year fda approval controversy: cancer and the politics of acceptable risk
- 3. Contraceptive chaos: unapproved use and Upjohn v. Macmurdo
- 4. Marketing approval and litigation: osteoporosis and the realities of medical risk
- 5. Chemical castration: the johns hopkins clinic and people v. gauntlett
- Conclusion. Contraceptive drug risk failure, human dignity, and a duty to act
- Glossary of legal and medical terms
- Notes
- Index
- About the author