Dangerous Pregnancies
Dangerous Pregnancies

Author: Leslie J. Reagan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-07-09

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0520274571

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Annotation This is the largely forgotten story of the rubella (German measles) epidemic of the early 1960s & how in the United States it created a national anxiety about dying, disabled & 'dangerous' babies.

Devices and Desires
Devices and Desires

Author: Andrea Tone

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0809038161

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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 turned surplus animal intestines into a million-dollar condom enterprise at night; inventors who fashioned cervical caps out of watch springs; and a mother of six who kissed photographs of the inventor of the Pill -- these are just a few of the individuals who make up this riveting story.