{"product_id":"contraceptive-risk-9781479891320","title":"Contraceptive Risk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDepo-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 male sex offenders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContraceptive Risk is William Green's landmark study of Depo-Provera. Based on a fascinating combination of archival materials and interviews, the book is framed as three interconnected stories told by Judith Weisz, who chaired the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry on Depo-Provera, a scientific court; by Anne MacMurdo who brought a products liability suit against Upjohn, the drug's manufacturer, for the deleterious side effects she suffered from the drug's use; and by Roger Gauntlett, an Upjohn heir who, when he was convicted of sexual assault, refused to take a dose of his family's own medicine as a probation condition. Together these three stories of Depo-Provera's convoluted fifty year odyssey call for a paradigm shift in pharmaceutical drug development.\u003cbr\u003eContraceptive Risk is a thoroughly researched and engrossing approach to the scientific, political and institutional forces involved in health law and policy, as well as the multifaceted politics of measuring risk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Green","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48088921276667,"sku":"9781479891320","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_cca89175-1e55-459d-91ab-f75ae6242fe3.jpg?v=1770442766","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/contraceptive-risk-9781479891320","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}