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The Morning After
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Price (cloth): $69.00
Subtitle: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States
Authors: Heather Munro Prescott
Subject: History of Medicine, Women's Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5163-0
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5162-3
Pages: 184 pages
Publication Date: October 2011
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Praise for The Morning After:
"Heather Munro Prescott has written an important and timely book that fills a significant gap in the literature on contraception and significantly deepens our knowledge of reproductive medicine."
—Rebecca M. Kluchin, author of Fit to be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive
Rights in America, 1950–1980
Description:
Since 2006, when the "morning-after pill" Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-million industry in the United States and throughout the Western world. But emergency contraception is nothing new. It has a long and often contentious history as the subject of clashes not only between medical researchers and religious groups, but also between different factions of feminist health advocates.
The Morning After tells the story of emergency contraception in America from the 1960s to the present day and, more importantly, it tells the story of the women who have used it. Side-stepping simplistic readings of these women as either radical feminist trailblazers or guinea pigs for the pharmaceutical industry, medical historian Heather Munro Prescott offers a portrait of how ordinary women participated in the development and popularization of emergency contraception, bringing a groundbreaking technology into the mainstream with the potential to alter radically reproductive health practices.
About the Author:
HEATHER MUNRO PRESCOTT is a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of Student Bodies: The Impact of Student Health on American Society and Medicine and the award-winning A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine.
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