From thriving black market to big business, the commercialization of birth control in the United States. In Devices and Desires , Andrea Tone breaks new ground by showing what it was really like to buy, produce, and use contraceptives during a century of profound social and technological change. A down-and-out sausage-casing worker by day who ...
Few topics stir stronger interest than birth control and abortion. Divisive opinions abound. This informative, detailed text contains 39 writings on the history of reproduction in the U.S. The historical path of reproduction control is viewed in the contexts of politics, law, medicine, sexuality, business, and social change. Because birth control ...
Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the number thought to have such a disorder in 2001. Anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar ...
A down and out sausage casing worker by day who turned surplus animal intestines into a million dollar condom enterprise at night; inventors who fashioned cervical caps out of watch springs; and mother of six who kissed photographs of the inventor of the Pill these are just a few of the fascinating individuals who make up the history of ...
"Tone has produced a first-rate book that uses welfare work as a window through which to examine a wide range of important topics that range from the philosophical and political to the social and the cultural to the quotidian. The general themes of the book deeply resonate with current debates in American political life and will help us place our ...
With Americans paying more than $200 billion in 2005 for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity of prescription drugs in recent decades has remade the doctor/patient relationship, instituting prescription-writing and pill-taking as an integral part of medical practice and everyday life. ...
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