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Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market - Couverture rigide

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Haussman, Melissa

 
9780313398223: Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market
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ISBN 10 : 0313398224 ISBN 13 : 9780313398223
Editeur : Praeger, 2013

Synopsis

Simultaneously examining four significant, never-before-combined case studies, this unique feminist analysis offers troubling revelations about the private-public interaction in U.S. policy affecting birth control drugs.
Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market tackles a subject that remains controversial more than 60 years after "the pill" was approved for use in the United States. The first book to examine the politicization of the FDA approval process for reproductive drugs, this study maps the hard-fought battles over the four major drugs currently on the U.S. market.

To make her case, Melissa Haussman scrutinizes the history of the FDA and the statutes that have governed it, as well as interactions between the U.S. government, American pharmaceutical companies, and the medical community. The analysis centers on explaining how three reproductive drugs were kept off the U.S. market well after their efficacy had been proven, while the availability of the fourth, Gardasil, has less to do with helping girls than with preserving the financial wellbeing of Merck. Readers will come away understanding how, when it comes to reproductive drugs, women's health concerns have consistently taken a backseat to political agendas and corporate profits.

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À propos de l'auteur

MELISSA HAUSSMAN is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Abortion Politics in North America (2005).

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Éditeur
Praeger
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0313398224
ISBN 13 
9780313398223
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
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WordUnited GmbH
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