Women's Trials: The Approval of the First Oral Contraceptive Pill in the United States and Great Britain

2002/04/01 by Suzanne White Junod · 459 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Nursing · #Environmental health #Family medicine #Family planning #Gynecology #Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes #Medicine #Nursing #Oral contraceptive pill #Pill #Population #Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment #Reproductive Health and Contraception #Research methodology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/jhmas/57.2.117

published in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57(2), 117-160 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

1FDA History Office, HFC‐24, Room 13–51, Rockville, MD. E-mail: [email protected] 2Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge University, 13 Hugo Road, London N19 5EU, UK. E-mail: [email protected]

Citations

• The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938: Its Legislative History and Its Substantive Provisions
• The Birmingham Oral Contraceptive Trial
• Clinical Trials of Oral Contraceptives
• FERTILITY PROMOTING AND INHIBITING EFFECTS OF NEW STEROID HORMONAL SUBSTANCES
• Effects of Certain 19-Nor Steroids on the Normal Human Menstrual Cycle
• Prescribing the Pill: Politics, Culture, and the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland

Cited by

• Combined oral contraceptive pill [wikipedia]