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The Morning After : A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States /

This book is the first to describe the history of emergency contraception from its beginnings in the 1960s. Other historical accounts of this technology focus on the very recent past and present a story of uniform progress from "the nation's best kept secret" to a dedicated product fo...

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Autor principal: Prescott, Heather Munro
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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