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Contraceptive Risk : The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine /
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 m...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the odyssey of Depo-Provera
- The Grady Hospital study : the corruption of contraceptive research
- The twenty-five-year FDA approval controversy : cancer and the politics of acceptable risk
- Contraceptive chaos : unapproved use and Upjohn v. MacMurdo
- Marketing approval and litigation : osteoporosis and the realities of medical risk
- Chemical castration : the John Hopkins Clinic and People v. Gauntlett
- Conclusions : contraceptive drug risk failure, human dignity, and a duty to act.