Contraceptive Risk: The Fda, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine

by William Green and William X. Green

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479836982
• ISBN13: 9781479836987
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"