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Birth Of The Pill : How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex And Launched A Revolution
Paperback Edition: 1
In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then 71, who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than 20
years her junior. His name was Gregory Pincus. This book tells the extraordinary story of how, prompted by Sanger, and then funded by the wealthy widow and philanthropist Katharine McCormick, he invented a drug that would stop women ovulating. With the support of John Rock, a charismatic and, crucially, Catholic doctor from Boston, who battled his own church in the effort to win public approval for the controversial new drug, he succeeded, and, together, these four determined men and women changed the world.
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Pages : 400
Publisher : Pan Books
Publication date : 2016-02-09
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure, Medicine, Health And Personal Development