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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Biopolitics ; 12
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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