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Book SynopsisThe 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 Upj
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By far the most thorough account of the Depo-Provera story to date. Though we may never get clear answers about whether Depo-Provera has done more harm than good over the past few decades, this well-researched history will be of great interest to those in the public health and women and gender studies fields, as well as many women contemplating the use of Depo-Provera themselves. -- Judy Norsigian, co-author and co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
William Greens fascinating tale of the use and misuse of Depo-Provera highlights the complex and faulty world of & risk management, the competing powerful interests at stake in drug approval and use, and the misuse of contraceptive drugs in controlling reproduction and sexual deviance. -- Karen L. Baird, co-author of Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy
Seldom has a study connected the micro with the macro, the personal with the legal, the individual with the structural in the manner and depth present in Contraceptive Risk. Using three concurrent and overlapping stories, Green explores in dizzying fashion, the politics of contraceptive risk management. * New Genetics and Society *
